157 named colours and 348 palettes from Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Color Combinations. Awtfit measures every garment you own against them, which is how it knows your outfit works. Pick a colour to see what to wear with it.
Complementary, triadic and analogous colour schemes are arithmetic performed on a wheel. They produce relationships that are real and combinations that are frequently unwearable, because a wheel knows nothing about how much of a colour you are wearing, what it is made of, or whether anybody has ever put those two things on a body at the same time.
Wada's palettes are the opposite. They were assembled by a person who was looking at them, and they have survived ninety years of designers reaching for them. That is a much better test than being 180 degrees apart.
When you photograph a garment, its colour is measured off the pixels rather than read off the label, then matched to the nearest colour in this list. Outfits are scored on the palettes their pieces share, with two adjustments that stop the maths producing nonsense: neutrals are treated as wildcards that stand beside a palette rather than losing to it, and outfits are scored for covering several palette colours rather than three garments all matching the same one.
See how the stylist uses this, or start by photographing your wardrobe.
A six volume work by the Japanese artist and teacher Sanzo Wada, published between 1933 and 1934. It names 348 colour combinations across 157 colours, and it is still one of the most used palette references in design. It is out of copyright.
Because they were observed rather than calculated. Colour wheel arithmetic produces combinations that are mathematically related and often unwearable. Wada's palettes were chosen by a person with an eye, which is why they still look right ninety years later.
Every garment you photograph is measured for its true colour and matched to its nearest of these 157. Outfits are then scored on the palettes their pieces share, which is why the app can tell you why a combination works rather than just asserting that it does.
No. This is the machinery running underneath. You tap shuffle and get an outfit.
Awtfit measures the real colour of every garment you photograph and tells you what it goes with.