true-hue

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Most online color analysis tools will hand you a season from one bad selfie in kitchen light. True Hue won't.

It runs the same protocol a certified analyst runs when you pay $300–$400 for an in-person consultation: five calibrated photos, a thorough intake questionnaire, four-dimension analysis with citations, a mandatory check-in before anything gets finalized, and draping against both adjacent seasons. If your inputs aren't good enough, you'll get a reshoot request. If the evidence is genuinely ambiguous, you'll get an honest "you're between two seasons" instead of a forced verdict.

Plan on 20–30 minutes. What you get back is a palette of ~36 hex codes organized by wardrobe role, colors to avoid with specific reasons each one fails, metals, neutrals tailored to your coloring ("your black," "your white," "your navy"), pattern and fabric guidance, and a shoppable starter capsule at two budget tiers. Plus grooming sections — eyewear, watches, hair color, facial hair, ties, makeup — that match exactly what you selected in the intake. None of the things you didn't.

Install

In Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/bankielewicz/TrueHue
/plugin install true-hue@truehue-marketplace

That's it. The next time you ask Claude about color analysis, the skill takes over.

Your first session

Two ways to start:

Recommended: run the dedicated command, which authorizes the AskUserQuestion tool for structured pickers instead of walls of text:

/true-hue:analyze

Or just tell Claude what you want — any phrasing works:

"Can you walk me through a full personal color analysis?"

The natural-language path triggers the skill but falls back to plain-text questionnaires because no slash command was invoked to authorize AskUserQuestion. Both paths produce the same analysis; the command path is just nicer to drive.

Claude opens with a few setup questions — have you been typed before, what's driving this, how much time do you have — and routes you to the right workflow. For a first-timer, that's the full Mode 1 protocol.

You'll need a few things ready:

• Natural indirect daylight. A north-facing window is ideal. An overcast day works. Midday but out of direct sun is fine. Lamps and ring lights don't work — they shift color dramatically.
• A sheet of plain white printer paper. Not cream, not off-white. It gets held at your cheek as a white balance reference.
• A plain white or medium-gray top. Or a neutral towel draped over your shoulders.
• Bare skin. No makeup, no tinted moisturizer, no lip balm with color.
• Hair pulled back. Off the face, ears, neck.
• Your phone. Any recent model. Rear camera is better than front.

If you're photographing yourself without a second person, Claude will show you four solo-photographer workarounds. Taping the paper to a mirror and using the rear camera is the one that usually wins.

After you submit, Claude runs a quality gate on the photos (rejecting anything with flash artifacts, makeup residue, bad lighting, or a contaminated paper reference), analyzes four dimensions separately — undertone, value, chroma, contrast — with evidence cited from specific photos and questionnaire items, then presents the readings and asks two targeted questions to catch anything that might be misread. You can push back. If there's genuine evidence the reading is off, Claude adjusts. If it's preference-based pushback ("I want to be a Spring"), Claude holds the analytical line and explains why.

Only after the check-in does a season get named. Then a draping comparison — why you're not the two neighboring seasons — then the full deliverable.

Modes

Mode 1 — Full analysis. You've never been typed, or you want a fresh read from scratch. The default if you haven't been typed before.

Mode 2 — Closet audit. You know your season and you want multiple wardrobe items evaluated against it.

Mode 3 — Single item check. "I'm a Soft Autumn. Is this sweater on my palette?" Quick verdict with reasoning.