Warm Spring
Unambiguously warm at medium depth, with enough clarity to carry golden colours without going heavy.
Spring family · Warmth is the dominant characteristic
Measure your own seasonThe palette
Unambiguously warm and moderately clear. Golden, sunlit colours with no grey in them.
- Marigold #E8963C
- Warm red #D9533B
- Leaf #6FBF8B
- Turquoise #59B3C4
- Golden yellow #F0C419
- Amber #C97B3C
- Coral #E5735F
- Apple green #8FBF5A
Metals. Yellow gold.
What works against you. Anything dusty or greyed, and true black, which reads harsh against warm colouring.
Warm Spring or Warm Autumn?
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.
Warm Autumn is the other warmth-dominant season, and both are strongly warm. The split is how far into warmth the complexion sits and how clear it is: Warm Spring keeps some brightness, while Warm Autumn is deeper and greyer. In our tool the iris chroma decides it — a clearer eye lands here.
What is worth knowing about it
This season was unreachable in our classifier until recently, which is worth saying plainly on its own page. The three axes the tool measures — temperature, depth and clarity — resolved warm-at-medium-depth to only two outcomes, so Warm Spring had a full profile that no measurement could ever produce. It was found by checking that every season the site publishes can actually be measured, a test that now runs on every build.
What defines it is warmth without weight. The colours are golden rather than earthy: think of the difference between a marigold and a rust. Both are warm, and only one of them belongs here. The line between this season and Warm Autumn is the least settled judgement in our colour tool, and the page for either will tell you so.
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.
- 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.