Light Spring color palette

Lip

• Coral pink
• Peach nude
• Warm rose

Blush

• Peach
• Apricot pink
• Warm nude

What colors are in the Light Spring color palette?

20 wearable colors, listed at the top of this page with their hex codes, plus 5 neutrals to build a wardrobe around. You do not need all of them, most people live in six or seven, and the neutrals do the heavy lifting.

What is the Light Spring color season?

Light Spring is one of the twelve seasonal color types. It is warm, strongly light and moderately bright. In practice that means peach, coral and apricot sit comfortably on you, while the colors in the avoid list make you look tired. Depth is the dominant axis here: the palette is defined first by how light or deep it is, and only then by temperature. (Depth is what the 12-tone system calls this season's primary characteristic.)

How do I know if I'm a Light Spring?

Three checks. Fair to light, with a golden, peach or ivory cast; often freckled. Light blonde to light golden brown, frequently with natural highlights. Light blue, light green, aqua or light hazel, often with a sunburst pattern. Contrast is the fourth: low. hair, skin and eyes all sit in a similar light range. If two of those four describe you, Light Spring is very likely your season, our free analysis scores all twelve and tells you how close the runners-up are.

What are the worst colors for a Light Spring?

The clearest ones to drop are black, espresso brown and burgundy. Far too deep, it drains a light, low-contrast face and reads as a hole in the outfit. Full explanations for each are on the colors-to-avoid page.

Am I a Light Spring or a True Spring?

They are neighbors, which is exactly why they get confused. The deciding axis is depth: Light Spring is the light one and True Spring is the deep one. We have a full side-by-side comparison if you are torn between them.

Can a Light Spring wear black?

Not near your face. Light Spring coloring is too light for true black, it drops a hard edge under the chin and pulls shadows forward. Use Soft denim navy (#5C6B8A) instead for anything worn up top, and keep black for trousers, shoes and bags where it has no effect on your skin.

Is Light Spring warm or cool?

Warm. Light Spring sits clearly on the warm side of the temperature axis, which is why gold, peach and the rest of the Spring palette settle the skin while icy or blue-based colors leave it sallow. Its dominant axis is depth, though, so a warm color still needs the right depth to work.

Should a Light Spring wear gold or silver?

Light gold, Rose gold and Champagne gold. Metal is one of the fastest at-home tests there is: hold silver and gold either side of your face in daylight and watch your skin rather than the jewelry, the wrong metal leaves a gray or sallow cast along the jaw.

How does Light Spring color analysis work?

Light Spring color analysis places your coloring on three axes, depth, temperature and clarity, and checks they match Light Spring, which is warm, strongly light and moderately bright. You can approximate it at home with the metal, vein and contrast tests, but those disagree often. Our free analysis settles it: it scores all twelve seasons from your answers and one photo, so you see how far Light Spring leads the neighbors it gets confused with.

What is the best color for a Light Spring to wear near the face?

Peach (#FFB68F) is the safest high-impact choice. Anything worn near the face, collars, scarves, knitwear, has the strongest effect on how your skin reads, so spend the palette there first and worry about trousers later.

Can I use the Light Spring hex codes for makeup or hair dye?

Use them for clothing and accessories, where a screen color maps reasonably well to fabric. For makeup and hair, use the dedicated pages, pigment on skin behaves differently from dye on cloth, and the recommended shades there account for that.