Palette Prescription was created to challenge the rigid way colour analysis is often presented.

Too often, discovering your season comes with a strict rulebook: once you have your result, you’re expected to dress exclusively within it. No nuance. No flexibility. No explanation for why certain colours still don’t feel right.

Palette Prescription takes a different approach.

Here, colour analysis is treated as a framework — not a set of restrictions. While your season provides essential structure, not every colour within it will be your best. Your strongest colours are shaped by a more specific combination of an individual’s hue, chroma, contrast and depth, and those subtleties matter.

This is why two people in the same season can look completely different in the same colour — and why self-identifying online doesn’t always click.

Education sits at the heart of Palette Prescription. The goal is not just to give you a result, but to help you understand why it works, where it flexes, and how to use it confidently. Knowing your season should give you more freedom, not less — including the freedom to break colour rules with intention.

Palette Prescription offers virtual colour analysis services for individuals, duos, and groups by request. It’s also a considered gift for anyone who’s tried to figure out their colours on their own — and wants clarity without confusion.

Maree Ellard is the founder of Palette Prescription, approaching colour analysis through a corrective, educational lens.

Her background spans corporate styling and a decade in brand marketing, where communicating brand archetypes — and understanding how they operate as layered, nuanced systems — was central to her work. That experience deeply informs her approach to colour analysis, shaping a methodology that is strategic, thoughtful, and rooted in how colour actually functions in context, perception, and identity.

Maree is particularly interested in the grey areas of colour analysis — individuals who don’t fit neatly into online systems, who feel close to multiple seasons, or who have received a result that doesn’t fully translate into real life. Much like brand identity, personal colouring is rarely one-dimensional, and oversimplification often leads to confusion rather than clarity.

Rather than assigning a label and moving on, her focus is on helping clients understand their colouring in context: what supports their features, why certain colours work effortlessly while others fall flat, and how to apply their results in a way that feels modern, intuitive, and personal.

Palette Prescription is also driven by a broader mission — to rewrite the misinformation surrounding colour analysis online. Maree’s work prioritises explanation over performance, education over aesthetics, and understanding over rigid categorisation.

Colour analysis, as she sees it, shouldn’t feel prescriptive or intimidating. It should feel clarifying.

Palette Prescription offers virtual colour analysis grounded in the 16-season system, with a strong emphasis on trait hierarchy rather than rigid categorisation.

This hierarchy-first approach allows for nuance, movement, and overlap between seasons, reflecting how colouring actually presents in real life. It is particularly well suited to virtual analysis, where accuracy depends on understanding relationships between traits rather than relying on isolated comparisons.

The goal is not to confine, but to clarify — offering a system that is structured enough to guide, yet flexible enough to feel personal, modern, and usable.