Clear Spring
Warm and notably clear — high contrast colouring where bright colours read as correct rather than loud.
Spring family · Clarity is the dominant characteristic
Measure your own seasonThe palette
Warm-leaning with high contrast and bright eyes. Saturated colours, used decisively.
- Bright red #E8402A
- Clear teal #00A6A6
- Bright gold #F2B705
- True blue #2E86C1
- Bright pink #E56399
- Grass #3DBE5F
- Clear white #F2F2F2
- Soft black #2B2B2B
Metals. Bright yellow gold.
What works against you. Muted, dusty and greyed tones, which flatten the natural contrast.
Clear Spring or Clear Winter?
The twelve-season system is six pairs. Each season shares its dominant characteristic with exactly one other, and the two differ on a single axis — which is where almost every misclassification happens.
Clear Winter shares the clarity and loses the warmth. Both need saturated colours and both are overwhelmed by anything dusty or greyed; the difference is the direction the skin hue leans. Warm lands here, cool or neutral lands in Winter.
What is worth knowing about it
Clarity is a measurement of contrast rather than of brightness. Our tool reads it two ways — the chroma of the iris, and the lightness gap between hair and skin — and either one crossing its threshold is enough. A dark-haired, light-skinned person with a vivid eye has high clarity whatever their hue does.
The mistake this season invites is treating clarity as permission for any bright colour. It is not: the colours still have to be warm. A clear cool blue will look as wrong here as a muted one, and for a different reason — the first clashes on temperature, the second on chroma.
The rest of the Spring family
Every family has three members, each with a different dominant characteristic. Sharing a family means sharing a temperature direction; it does not mean the palettes are interchangeable.
- Light Spring — lightness dominant. Warm and light, with low contrast between hair, skin and eyes. Colours need to stay clear without getting heavy.
- Warm Spring — warmth dominant. Unambiguously warm and moderately clear. Golden, sunlit colours with no grey in them.
How to find out whether this is your season
Not from a photograph taken under unknown lighting, which is what most online season quizzes amount to. The room's light changes measured skin hue by more than the difference between two adjacent seasons, so a colour reading is worthless unless something corrects for it first.
Our colour analysis tool white-balances against the whites of your eyes before measuring anything, and reports the three axes — temperature, depth and clarity — alongside the season they produce, so you can see which of them was decisive. Everything runs in your browser and the photo is never uploaded.
- Personal colour analysis — the full twelve-season reading.
- Skin undertone finder — the temperature axis measured on its own.
- Foundation shade matcher — depth and undertone as a coordinate you can shop with.
Seasonal colour analysis is a styling convention rather than a finding about anyone. What can be measured is the hue, lightness and chroma of your skin, hair and eyes; which colours anyone prefers to wear is a separate question and a matter of taste. Nothing here scores or ranks anyone's appearance.