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Does this
colour sit
with yours?

Build a colour record of what you already own. Then photograph anything in a shop and see which of your pieces it works with, which it fights, and whether you already have this colour.

Free plan
12 pieces
It judges
Garments
It never judges
People

Gap or repeat

You already own this colour. The sage cardigan is close enough in hue and depth that the two will read as the same piece in a drawer.

What would bridge it

  • Put the charcoal tee between this and the rust jacket, the camel coat, the rose scarf and 2 others. It is the piece in your archive that can hold the two apart.
A ring showing how Moss green relates to the 12 pieces in the example archive. 7 sit with it and 5 fight it. The same information is written out in the two lists below the ring.
01 — The ring12 pieces on record
NEW
Circle, solid line, inner ring — sits withSquare, dashed line, outer ring — fights

Sits with07

  • the slate denim shirtThe slate denim shirt carries no hue to argue with, but it sits at almost the same depth — the pair reads as one block rather than two pieces.
  • the ecru linen trousersThe ecru linen trousers is the lighter, quieter half. It gives the green somewhere to sit without competing for it.
  • the cream shirtThe cream shirt is the lighter, quieter half. It gives the green somewhere to sit without competing for it.
  • the charcoal teeThe charcoal tee is deep enough to hold the green up. Nothing in it pushes back.
  • the olive trousersA short step from the olive trousers, and one of the two is soft enough to absorb it.
  • the navy crewOpposite sides of the wheel from the navy crew, but far enough apart in depth that one clearly leads.
  • the burgundy skirtThe burgundy skirt is soft enough that the wide hue gap reads as contrast rather than conflict.

Fights05

  • the rust jacketA wide 92 degrees from the rust jacket, and both hold their ground. The deeper of the two pulls the pairing apart rather than framing it.
  • the camel coatThe camel coat is just as strong and sits at the same depth, a wide 64 degrees away. Neither one leads, so the eye keeps switching between them.
  • the rose scarfThe rose scarf is just as strong and sits at the same depth, a wide 100 degrees away. Neither one leads, so the eye keeps switching between them.
  • the mustard vestThe mustard vest is just as strong and sits at the same depth, a wide 61 degrees away. Neither one leads, so the eye keeps switching between them.
  • the sage cardiganNearly the same colour and nearly the same depth as the sage cardigan. Close-but-not-equal reads as a mismatch, not a set.

What it cannot know

Colours shift between screens, lighting and materials. If it's close, see them side by side in daylight before deciding.

  • 01

    Your screen is not the garment. Every display shifts colour, and this one has not been profiled.

  • 02

    The photograph carries its own cast. Shop lighting, daylight and phone white balance each pull the reading a different way.

  • 03

    Material changes what you see. The same dye reads deeper on wool than on linen, and shinier fabric throws back the light around it.

03 — How it works

Three photographs and one honest answer

  1. Twelve folded garments laid out in a loose grid on a pale paper surface
    01

    Photograph what you already own

    Lay each piece flat and take one picture. The colour is read off the photograph and stored as a position, not as a name. Twelve pieces is a start; forty is a record you can rely on.

  2. A folded knitted garment resting on a pale wooden shop counter beside a stack of folded knitwear
    02

    Photograph the thing you have not bought

    In the shop, one picture of the piece you are holding. It is read the same way and placed against the record you already built. Nothing about you is photographed, and photographs of people are refused.

  3. Two folded garments placed side by side on paper, one rust and one navy, compared against each other
    03

    Read the relationship, piece by piece

    Which of your pieces it sits with. Which it fights. What would have to sit between them. Whether you already own this colour. Every line names a specific piece, because a general answer would be worth nothing.

04 — The repeat

You keep buying the same colour

Not the same shade — the same depth. Take the hue away and the pattern shows up immediately: four pieces stacked in one band, and two bands with nothing in them at all.

The empty bands are the useful part. A colour that fights three things in your record often fights them because the piece that would have stood between them is a depth you do not own.

Seven folded garments in almost the same sand tone laid out in a row
02 — Depth distribution2 empty bands
  • Very lightNothing here. This depth is missing from the record.00
  • Lightthe cream shirtthe ecru linen trousers02
  • Softthe sage cardigan01
  • Midthe camel coatthe rose scarfthe slate denim shirtthe mustard vest04
  • Deep midthe rust jacketthe olive trousers02
  • Deepthe charcoal tee01
  • Very deepthe navy crewthe burgundy skirt02
  • Near blackNothing here. This depth is missing from the record.00

Crowded

mid — three or more pieces sitting at the same depth. Buying another one here adds a piece, not an option.

Missing

very light and near black — nothing on record at these depths. Pieces that fight each other often do so because there is nothing at this depth to stand between them.

05 — The archive

A wardrobe is a pile of colour cards

This is the record the ring above was computed from — twelve pieces, each photographed lying flat, each reduced to one colour and a position. Nobody is wearing anything, and nobody ever will be: the tool reads clothes, not people.

12 pieces in this archive.

  • the rust jacket, photographed lying flat

    the rust jacket

    01 · Outerwear

  • the navy crew, photographed lying flat

    the navy crew

    02 · Knitwear

  • the cream shirt, photographed lying flat

    the cream shirt

    03 · Shirting

  • the olive trousers, photographed lying flat

    the olive trousers

    04 · Trousers

  • the camel coat, photographed lying flat

    the camel coat

    05 · Outerwear

  • the charcoal tee, photographed lying flat

    the charcoal tee

    06 · Jersey

  • the rose scarf, photographed lying flat

    the rose scarf

    07 · Accessories

  • the sage cardigan, photographed lying flat

    the sage cardigan

    08 · Knitwear

  • the burgundy skirt, photographed lying flat

    the burgundy skirt

    09 · Skirts

  • the ecru linen trousers, photographed lying flat

    the ecru linen trousers

    10 · Trousers

  • the slate denim shirt, photographed lying flat

    the slate denim shirt

    11 · Shirting

  • the mustard vest, photographed lying flat

    the mustard vest

    12 · Knitwear

06 — Price

The free plan stops where it starts lying

Twelve pieces is enough to see whether the answers help. It is not enough for them to be right — a short record reports that a colour fights everything, when the truth is that the pieces it would have sat with were never entered. Paid plans lift the ceiling and add the in-shop check, which is the only form of this tool that is any use while you are standing in front of the thing.

Free

50 credits

$0.00USD / month, all taxes included

Enough to find out whether the answer is any use to you, on an archive small enough that you should not trust it yet.

  • Up to 12 pieces on record
  • 50 credits a month
  • Full relationship ring and comparison cards
  • Every piece named individually, never a general recommendation
  • Relationship images carry a watermark
  • No in-shop quick check
  • One archive only
Start free

Match

400 credits

$8.00USD / month, all taxes included

or $77.00 USD a year, all taxes included

For a real wardrobe, and for the moment you are actually standing in the shop.

  • Unlimited pieces on record
  • 400 credits a month
  • No watermark on any output
  • In-shop quick check — the record is cached on the device and the first pass is computed there
  • Comparison cards for every piece it sits with
  • One archive only
  • No seasonal sections
Choose Match

Palette

1500 credits

$24.00USD / month, all taxes included

or $230.00 USD a year, all taxes included

For more than one wardrobe, or one wardrobe that changes with the season.

  • Everything in Match
  • 1,500 credits a month
  • Several archives under one account
  • Seasonal sections, so summer pieces do not distort a winter verdict
  • Priority queue when the service is busy
Choose Palette

What a credit is spent on

  • A question about a colour1
  • Reading a colour off a photograph while building the record1 per piece
  • Reading a colour off a new piece in a shop2
  • A relationship ring with comparison cards5

Terms, plainly

Prices are shown in US dollars (USD) and are the amount charged, all taxes included. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled, and cancelling takes as few steps as subscribing. There are no credit packs and no top-ups; an unused allowance does not carry into the next month and holds no monetary value.

Full pricing, billing and cancellation terms

07 — The boundary

What it will not do

These are not features waiting to be built. They are the shape of the tool: it reads relationships between garments, and everything that would require reading a person is out of scope permanently.

  • It does not tell you what suits you

    No seasonal type, no warm or cool classification, no verdict on your appearance. It compares garments to garments.

  • It does not look at your skin, hair or eyes

    None of it is collected, stored or examined. Photographs containing people are refused at upload, and nothing it produces contains a body.

  • It does not publish colour values

    No exact codes, anywhere. A published value would claim a measurement accuracy that a photograph taken in shop light cannot support.

  • It does not tell you what is in fashion

    Whether a colour is current is not a relationship between two garments, so the tool has no opinion about it.

08 — Questions

The eight we get asked

01Can you tell me which colours suit me?

No. This tool does not analyse people. It reads the relationship between one garment colour and the garment colours already on your record, and that is the whole of what it does.

It assigns no seasonal type, it draws no warm or cool classification of you, and it does not collect or examine skin tone, hair colour or eye colour. Photographs of people are refused at upload.

That is a deliberate boundary rather than a missing feature. Judging a person's appearance means collecting information about their body, and a verdict about two jumpers needs none of it.

02Are the colours on my screen accurate?

No, and no tool can make them so. Your display has its own cast, the photograph was taken under whatever light was available, and the same dye reads deeper on wool than on linen.

So the answer you get is a relationship, not a measurement. No exact colour value is published anywhere in this service, because publishing one would claim an accuracy that does not exist.

When a verdict is close, put the two pieces side by side in daylight before you decide. That instruction appears on every result.

03What happens to my photographs and my record?

Your record is yours. It is never used to train any model — not the photographs, not the colours read from them, not the verdicts.

Photographs are kept while your account is open so the record stays usable, and are deleted within thirty days of you deleting a piece or closing the account. Deleting the account deletes the archive with it.

No skin tone, hair colour, eye colour or any other biometric information is collected at any point, because none of it is needed to compare two garments.

04How accurate is the verdict, and what is it not?

The verdicts are produced by a model reading colour off photographs and by arithmetic run on your device. Both can be wrong, and a photograph taken in poor light will produce a wrong answer confidently.

Treat it as a second opinion about two objects, never as advice. It is not suitable for, and must not be used for, medical, legal, financial, safety, employment, credit, housing or judicial decisions.

Below eight pieces on record, the tool says so on the result rather than pretending otherwise. A short record makes almost everything look like it fights.

05Can I cancel, and can I get a refund?

You can cancel at any time from your plan page, in as few steps as it took to subscribe. Cancelling stops the next renewal; the plan stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for.

You have fourteen days to withdraw from a subscription. Because this is a digital service that starts straight away, that right ends early only if you have ticked both of the separate, unticked boxes at checkout: one asking for the service to begin immediately, and one acknowledging that doing so ends the withdrawal right once the service has been fully performed.

If you did not tick both, the fourteen days run as normal. The full procedure and a standard withdrawal form are on the withdrawal page.

06How do credits work?

Credits are a monthly allowance for using the service. They are not money, they hold no monetary value, they cannot be redeemed for cash and they cannot be transferred to anyone.

There are no credit packs and no top-ups. Nothing carries over: each month's allowance resets, and an unused balance is not banked.

If you run out before the month ends, you either wait for the reset or move up a plan. Reading a colour costs one credit per piece while you are building the record, two for a new piece in a shop, one for a question, and five for a relationship ring with comparison cards.

07Why does the free plan stop at twelve pieces?

Because twelve pieces is enough to see whether the answers are useful, and not enough for the answers to be right.

A short record produces misleading verdicts in one specific direction: it reports that a colour fights everything, when the truth is that the pieces it would have sat with were never entered. The tool warns you about this below eight pieces, and the warning is never covered by the free plan's watermark.

The paid plans lift the ceiling entirely and add the in-shop quick check, which is the form the tool takes when you are actually standing in front of the thing.

08Is there an age limit?

Yes. Accounts are for people aged 16 and over. The service is not directed at children, and no account is knowingly opened for anyone below that age.

If you believe an account has been opened by someone under 16, write to the support address and it will be closed and its archive deleted.

Start with
twelve pieces

Photograph what you own. The next time you are holding something you are not sure about, you will have an answer that names the pieces it sits with — instead of an impression you cannot check.

Free plan, 12 pieces, no card required