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What goes with White?

White is a muted, light neutral from Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Color Combinations, the 1933 reference Awtfit uses to score every outfit it builds. Wada recorded 1 palette containing White. Those are the combinations below, and they are the ones Awtfit scores your wardrobe against.

How to wear it

As a rule, White goes with charcoal, navy and black to give it an edge to sit against. Because it is muted, it behaves like a neutral, so build freely on top of it.

  • The safe version: White plus one partner from its palette, plus a neutral in the largest area.
  • The lightness check: keep a clear step in brightness between it and whatever sits next to it, or the outfit goes flat however correct the hues are.
  • If you own one piece in it: treat that piece as the point of the outfit and build quietly around it.

The exact palettes for White

Building an outfit in the Awtfit Lab, where the palettes for White are applied to your own clothes

1 exact palette for White

The colours Wada paired with White are built into the Lab, where they are applied to the clothes you actually own. Pick the palette and Awtfit assembles the outfit from your wardrobe, then shows it on you.

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Awtfit measures the real colour of every garment you photograph, matches it to the nearest of these 157, and scores your outfits on the palettes they share. That is the part you cannot do from a chart: it works on your own wardrobe. See how the stylist works, or browse all 157 colours.

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FAQ

About White

What colours go with White?

White goes with charcoal, navy and black to give it an edge to sit against. Wada recorded 1 exact palette for it, and Awtfit matches those against the clothes in your own wardrobe so you can see which of them you can already wear.

How do I use White in an outfit?

Pair it with one partner colour and let a neutral take the largest area. Because it is muted, it behaves like a neutral, so build freely on top of it.

Is White a warm or cool colour?

It is a neutral, so it reads as whatever you put beside it.

Find out what your own clothes match

Photograph a garment and Awtfit tells you its true colour and what to wear with it.