About Color Seasons
Our mission: Make color seasons and color analysis clear, inclusive, and practical, so you can build a personal color palette that makes you feel like your best self.
Color can feel subjective. We make it simpler. At Color Seasons, you’ll learn how to identify your season, what colors bring out your features, and how to use that knowledge when you shop or get dressed. Our goal is that you leave with confidence and a toolkit you can use right away.
We’re inclusive by design. You’re welcome here at any age, sex, gender identity, race, or style. We show real range in undertones and skin depths, use accessible language, and focus on evidence-based guidance.
What We Do
- Teach the fundamentals: undertone, contrast, and clarity (saturation/chroma).
- Guide discovery: self-guided assessment, visual comparisons, and color palettes for each color season.
- Keep it human: color seasons are tools, not rules. You always get to choose what feels like you.
About Our Founders
Mitch Glenn is a Lead Software Engineer, entrepreneur, and maker. He’s built entire software applications on his own, led a team, screened in a patio for his cats, and built beautiful custom built-in cabinets from scratch for his house. He has an eye for design, and loves turning complex ideas into tools people actually enjoy using.
Kaela Glenn is a Senior Data Scientist, baker, color-fanatic, and cat-mom. Her work centers on making data transparent and useful; skills she brings to color analysis so you can see why a palette works, not just what to wear.
Married for over 12 years, Mitch and Kaela lived in Vancouver, BC, before settling near Portland, Oregon. They’ve worked together on home reno projects, as coworkers at two different software companies, and on their own businesses they’ve created. Together they blend data, design, and color season expertise to bring clarity, simplicity, and innovation to Color Seasons.
Why Color Seasons?
For Kaela Glenn, the journey with color seasons began as a pre-teen, when a family friend told her she “looks great in green.” Her experience with greens was hit-or-miss. Sometimes she felt vibrant, other times washed out. In her twenties, as she expanded her color vocabulary, she realized it was specifically emerald green that lit her up.
Emerald became her mantra. She bought scarves, sweaters, coats, jewelry; everything in that color. She’d found a hue that worked but didn’t yet understand why.
In late 2021, she discovered color seasons, and everything clicked. After taking quizzes, reading books, and experimenting with color analysis, she confirmed she was a Dark Winter. Suddenly, she understood why emerald, black, and white made her glow, while beige or sage dulled her. Leaning into her season’s palette opened a whole new world of color and confidence.
Her enthusiasm quickly spread. Kaela began helping friends and family find their seasons and noticed two challenges: it’s still hard to shop within your palette, and much of the content online lacked diversity.
When the opportunity arose to build something together, Color Seasons was the natural next step; a place where data meets design, and everyone can see themselves represented.