White, yellow or rose gold?

In jewelry design, the selection of the setting is just as crucial as the choice of the stone itself. The chosen metal alloy not only has an aesthetic function, but also impacts the color harmony of the piece in relation to the wearer’s skin tone, as well as the visual and symbolic appearance of the gemstone. Currently, the trend of color analysis influences the choice of jewelry that best enhances each individual’s features based on four main "seasons" that identify specific color palettes.

The winter palette is characterized by cool, deep, and highly saturated colors, inspired by the sharp and intense light of the cold season. Skin tones in this category often have cool undertones, with dark hair and intense eyes. People who fall into this color season are recommended metals such as platinum, white gold, or rhodium-plated silver. These metals particularly enhance blue sapphires, deep amethysts, onyx, aquamarine, and diamonds, creating bold and bright contrasts.

The summer palette favors cool yet subdued, dusty, and refined tones. The ideal mix is achieved with shades reminiscent of filtered summer light, delicate but present. Jewelry in satin-finished white gold, silver, or antiqued or matte gold seems to enhance the characteristics of the summer palette and creates a perfect blend with rose quartz, opal, morganite, kunzite, angel skin coral, cameos, and pearls, preferably set with matte finishes for a sophisticated and discreet effect.

The spring palette, on the other hand, is dominated by warm, fresh, and light colors, often associated with bright skin tones, light eyes, and golden or coppery hair. Metals such as light yellow gold, delicate rose gold, and satin finishes combine well to highlight turquoise, prasiolite, imperial topaz, orange coral, morganite, peridot, as well as fancy pink diamonds.

Finally, the autumn palette is inspired by the earthy tones of the forest floor: warm, enveloping, and matte. Autumnal skin tones tend to have golden or peach undertones, often paired with green, brown, or amber eyes and red or golden brown hair. For the autumn palette, warm rose gold, bronze, and titanium with burnished finishes are a perfect match. Amber, malachite, green tourmaline, intense red coral, and champagne-toned diamonds harmonize perfectly with these metals.