Spring, the warm one
Think golden, fresh and warm, neither pale nor heavy.
#F7CC3DAt the window#F26B5BOn a video call#B98B52In the closet
01 Is this you
Temperature leads. Warmth stands out first, so temperature names this season, and clarity and depth confirm the side.
That is why warm colors with some freshness tend to read cleanest.
02 Your colors
Tap a color to copy its HEX.
Best white
Cream #F6EAC8
A softer black
Warm dark brown #4E3524
Denim
Medium indigo with a warm cast, light wash; skip gray-black denim
03 Wear it
Keep warm, clear color closest to your face.
Try golden yellow, leaf green or warm turquoise.
Cream, camel and warm brown are your neutrals.
If you like black, keep it away from your face or put a warm color between.
Let your pieces sit a few steps apart in lightness.
Add one clear color near your face.
04 Neighbors
True Spring
Bright Spring
Both lean warm. Bright Spring is sharper in clarity, where True Spring is clear but a little gentler.
The swap test. Hold a sharp coral under your chin by a window, then a coral with a touch of gray in it, at the same depth. If the sharp one keeps your face first, Bright Spring is closer.
True Spring
Light Spring
Both lean warm. Light Spring stays light, where True Spring sits at medium depth.
The swap test. Use this swap only if the gray strip left you close to the line between light and medium. Hold a light peach under your chin by a window, then a medium coral, changing nothing else.
05 Your skin
On deep skin, warm, clear colors tend to read best when they are rich and saturated, like a poppy red or a clear teal. Look at your jaw and lips, not just the cheek, since a color can look fine at the cheek and read gray at the jaw.
Olive tends to sit between warm and cool, so a very orange color can pull yellow. Try a warm turquoise or a leaf green by the window and ask whether your skin looks grayer or more yellow-green.
A tan can shift your depth reading, so run the strip again in another season if your swaps feel different. Warm coral and golden yellow are good first swaps to hold against a cooler pink.
Redness in your cheeks can look like a cool undertone when it is only blood flow, so test warm against cool with a rested face. Cream against cool white, by a window, is a quick first swap.
07 Questions
Photos carry their own light, and a consultant's room has another. The two answers are often next door: Bright Spring and Light Spring.
On deep skin, warm, clear colors tend to read best when they are rich and saturated, like a poppy red or a clear teal. Look at your jaw and lips, not just the cheek, since a color can look fine at the cheek and read gray at the jaw.
No. Keep the black you love.
It can. Black is cool and very deep, so next to a warm, clear coloring it tends to read stark near the face.
Some systems use other names for the same idea, and Warm Spring is a common one for what I call True Spring. The twelve season names are a convention, so they drift from one source to the next.
Coral or a warm red tends to read as part of a warm, clear coloring. Pick the depth by how far your lips sit from your skin, and check the shade by a window.
A closet in warm, clear colors with outfit formulas, the words for a colorist, and a page for your skin tone.
or just the palette on your phone
Not sure it is yours? Take the free test.
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