Light Summer
Light colouring that leans cool, with the same low contrast as its Spring counterpart.
Summer family · Lightness is the dominant characteristic
Measure your own seasonThe palette
Cool and light, with gentle contrast. Soft, slightly powdery colours.
- Powder blue #C7D5E8
- Rose #E8C3D3
- Sage #B8CFC2
- Lavender #C9BEDB
- Cornflower #A3B8D1
- Pearl #EBE3E8
- Slate blue #9AAFC4
- Dusty pink #D6A9B8
Metals. Silver, white gold, or very pale rose gold.
What works against you. Black, orange, and anything with obvious heat in it.
Light Summer or Light Spring?
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 Spring is the warm version of the same lightness. Skin hue decides it: below 54° in Lab and you are here, above 62° and you are in Spring. Both are constrained far more by depth than by temperature.
What is worth knowing about it
The dominant characteristic is lightness, not coolness — which matters because it changes what goes wrong. A slightly-too-warm colour will look unremarkable here. A colour that is too dark will not, however cool it is. Depth is the binding constraint and temperature is the secondary one.
This is the season most often confused with Cool Summer, and the two sit adjacent in the same family. The difference is where the complexion falls on lightness rather than on temperature: Light Summer sits above our lightness threshold, Cool Summer in the medium band.
The rest of the Summer 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.
- Cool Summer — coolness dominant. Definitively cool with medium depth and moderate softness. Blue-based colours throughout.
- Soft Summer — softness dominant. Cool-neutral with low contrast and low saturation. Everything works better slightly greyed.
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.