True Colors Personality Model
A 4-color personality system (Orange, Gold, Green, Blue) created by Don Lowry in 1978, adapted from David Keirsey's four temperaments.
True Colors sorts people into 4 color-coded styles: Orange, Gold, Green, and Blue. Each color maps onto one of Keirsey's four temperaments, Orange to Artisan, Gold to Guardian, Green to Rational, and Blue to Idealist, which themselves trace back to groupings of MBTI-style dichotomies.
Don Lowry, a student of Keirsey's work, created True Colors in 1978 to make temperament theory easier to teach and apply outside academic settings, especially in classrooms and workplace training. It's still widely used today in team-building and educator workshops.
True Colors isn't affiliated with or endorsed by MBTI, and it isn't the model behind our own 16 Types Test, which measures four separate dichotomies rather than sorting people into one of 4 colors.