Light Spring
Light colouring with warmth in it, and little contrast between hair, skin and eyes.
Spring family · Lightness is the dominant characteristic
Measure your own seasonThe palette
Warm and light, with low contrast between hair, skin and eyes. Colours need to stay clear without getting heavy.
- Warm sand #F7D9A0
- Coral pink #F2A490
- Light jade #A8D5BA
- Sky #9FC7E8
- Butter #F4E285
- Warm lilac #D9A7C7
- Salmon #E8846B
- Spring green #BFD8A0
Metals. Light gold, or rose gold.
What works against you. Black and heavy jewel tones, which overwhelm a light colouring rather than flattering it.
Light Spring or Light Summer?
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.
Light Summer is the cool version of the same lightness. The deciding measurement is skin hue: below 54° in Lab reads cool and lands in Summer, above 62° reads warm and lands here. Everything else about the two — the lightness, the low contrast, the way heavy colours overwhelm them — is shared.
What is worth knowing about it
Lightness is the dominant characteristic here, which means it outranks temperature when the two disagree. A light complexion with only mild warmth still belongs in this season rather than in one of the more strongly warm ones, because what the colouring cannot tolerate is weight, and that constraint binds harder than the warm-cool question.
The practical consequence is about depth rather than hue. Black is the classic mistake — not because it is cool, but because it is heavy enough to make the face recede behind it. The same is true of navy and charcoal. A warm colour at the wrong depth will fail here just as reliably as a cool one.
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.
- Warm Spring — warmth dominant. Unambiguously warm and moderately clear. Golden, sunlit colours with no grey in them.
- Clear Spring — clarity dominant. Warm-leaning with high contrast and bright eyes. Saturated colours, used decisively.
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.