Brown
≈58%Dark to medium brown across the whole iris, often reading near-black in low light. The most common eye colour in every region of the world.
Looks · Eye Color
What's your eye color,
and how rare is it?
Upload one clear photo and get your eye colour read from the iris itself - Brown, Light Brown, Hazel, Amber, Green, Blue or Gray - plus how cleanly you fit it, the runner-up colour, roughly how many people worldwide share it, your limbal ring, flecks and undertone, and three colours that make your eyes stand out. Free, in seconds, never stored.
- Completely free - the whole result, no account, no payment
- Colour, match % and runner-up read from the iris, not the overall impression
- Approximate worldwide rarity, limbal ring, flecks, pupil ring and undertone
- Three clothing and makeup colours that make your eyes pop
- A description, never a ranking - no colour is 'better'
The Eye Color Analyzer is completely free - there is no paid version of this result. Your photo is used only to generate your result and is never sold. See our privacy policy.
The seven eye colours, and roughly how common each is
Every eye colour is melanin plus light scattering, read in daylight. The seven bins are the recognisable combinations - the percentages are rounded estimates of the worldwide population from the usual surveys, which bin colours differently - so read them as "about", and remember that less common never means better.
Light Brown
≈18%A caramel, tan or golden-brown iris that stays brown in every light - no green or grey zones, even at the outer edge.
Blue
≈9%A clear blue iris, from pale ice to deep slate, with no brown or green ring. Blue irises have almost no melanin - the colour is light scattering, which is why they shift with the sky and your clothes.
Hazel
≈5%A multi-tone iris: typically a brown or gold ring around the pupil shading into green or grey toward the edge. The colour appears to change with light and clothing because different zones catch the eye.
Amber
≈5%A solid golden, copper or yellowish-brown iris with a uniform tone - sometimes called honey or wolf eyes. Unlike hazel, there is no second colour and no gradient toward green.
Gray
≈3%A low-saturation, steel or stone-coloured iris, often with fine dark spokes. Grey eyes can pick up blue, green or even faint hazel tones from surroundings, which is why they are so often misread.
Green
≈2%A genuinely green iris across most of its area, from olive to emerald, sometimes with a gold or amber ring around the pupil. Among the least common colours worldwide.
The four details the analysis reads
Limbal ring
The dark ring where the iris meets the white. Visible or faint - a strong ring makes any colour read more saturated from a distance, and it is why the same blue can look vivid on one person and washed out on another.
Central heterochromia
A distinctly different colour around the pupil than the outer iris - a gold or brown centre inside green or blue is the classic case. Common, harmless, and often the reason a quiz calls hazel what a mirror calls green.
Flecks
Spots, streaks or spokes of a second colour scattered through the iris - none, some or many. Flecks are what make hazel and grey eyes shift with light, and they decide whether a 'pop' colour should match the base or the flecks.
Undertone
Warm (gold, copper, olive), cool (slate, steel, ice) or neutral. Not the same as your skin undertone - the iris has its own temperature, and it is the single most useful read for choosing clothing and makeup colours.
Want the long version? What is my eye color? covers why hazel, green and grey get confused, how lighting changes the read, and the rarity table.
FAQ
How does the eye color analyzer work?
Upload one clear, front-facing photo in daylight. The tool crops to your eye area and reads the iris itself - the base tone, whether there is a second colour zone around the pupil, flecks, the limbal ring and the iris's warm or cool undertone - then places it in one of seven bins: Brown, Light Brown, Hazel, Amber, Green, Blue or Gray. You get a match percentage and the runner-up colour, because real irises sit between bins, plus the approximate share of people worldwide who share your colour.
Is the eye color analyzer free?
Completely. There is no paid report behind this tool - your colour, match %, runner-up, rarity, the four detail reads and three colour tips are the whole result, with no account and no payment. If you want more, the free result points you to Color Analysis for your full palette, the Eye Shape Analyzer, or The Face Report.
What is the rarest eye color?
Green, at roughly 2% of people worldwide, followed by grey at about 3%. Hazel and amber each sit near 5%, blue near 9%, and the two brown bins together cover around three quarters of the world. These are rounded estimates from population surveys that bin colours differently, so treat them as 'about', never as a measurement - and rarer is not better, just less common.
Why do I get different answers - hazel, green or brown?
Because hazel is a multi-tone iris, and which tone wins depends on the light and on what you are wearing. Warm indoor light pushes hazel toward brown or amber - daylight and green clothing push it toward green. The tool reads the actual zones of the iris rather than the overall impression, and it tells you the runner-up colour so the result is honest about the blend.
Does lighting change the result?
It changes the photo, which is why the tool lowers its confidence for low light, strong colour casts, heavy filters and red-eye, and says so. For the most reliable read: face a window in daylight, no sunglasses, no flash, no filter, camera at eye level. Blue and grey eyes are the most light-sensitive - overcast light greys a blue eye, a blue sky blues a grey one.
Can it tell if someone is wearing colored contacts?
It looks for the usual tells - a flat, printed-looking texture, a hard outer edge, a colour that doesn't follow the natural fibres of the iris, or a lens ring visible over the white - and flags a likely coloured lens while lowering its confidence. It is a best guess from one photo, not a certainty. For your natural colour, upload a photo without lenses.
What colors make my eyes stand out?
Usually two routes: the complementary colour on the wheel (copper, rust and warm orange for blue eyes - plum and burgundy for green - purple and navy for brown), or a colour that echoes the flecks or the ring (gold for a hazel centre, bronze for amber). The result gives three specific clothing and makeup colour tips for your exact colour and undertone.
Is my photo kept private?
Yes. Your photo is analyzed in memory to generate your result and then discarded - it is never stored, sold or used to train models. No signup is needed.