What all Springs share is warmth with clarity. The three types are each pulled by light, warm or clear — the palettes are set side by side here so you can see which one is yours.
Scan first if you are not sure you are a Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter — the tool places you on all three axes before naming a season.
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Spring is the only family that is both warm and bright. The undertone reads golden rather than pink, hair and eyes usually carry warm or golden brown, and the contrast across the face is moderate. What hurts a Spring is not saturation but muddiness: put autumn's greyed-off warm colours next to a Spring and they look tired immediately.
The three Spring types
Each palette below is the full set for that type, with the colours named — the point of a palette is to be able to shop from it.
Light Spring
Everything about you sits light and slightly warm, and the gap between your skin and hair is small. The point is not brightness but weight: heavy dark colours are seen before you are.
Your darkWarm Taupe BrownYour lightWarm IvoryMetal Gold
Colours to avoid
Pure BlackDeep VioletCold SlateDeep Brick
What to wear: Light colours worn head to toe work best — apricot, peach, buttercup, light aqua. When you need a dark, reach for warm brown instead of black and warm ivory instead of stark white.
Makeup direction: Coral, peach and warm pinks. Brown liner rather than black, and a blush with some orange in it.
True Spring
Warmth is your clearest characteristic, and you can carry a good deal of saturation with it. Sunlit colours — golden yellow, coral, apple green — lift your skin along with the outfit.
What to wear: Coral, golden yellow, warm turquoise and apple green all work as your main colour. Cream beats white, golden brown beats black.
Makeup direction: Warm red, coral and brick-orange lips. Golden brown and copper on the eyes; skip cool grey-pinks.
Bright Spring
High contrast, high saturation and warm with it. What suits you is colour that reads clean and bright; muted, greyed-off colours are the one thing that flattens you.
What to wear: Bright coral red, emerald, bright azure — saturation is your friend. Use warm navy where others use black, and colour-blocking rather than tonal dressing.
Makeup direction: Keep it definite: bright coral, true red, warm hot pink. Matte greyed nudes blur your features.
Telling them apart
The question that actually matters is not which family you are in but which of the three you are. These are the distinctions that decide it.
Light Spring vs True Spring
Look at the gap between hair and skin. A small gap with light colouring overall is Light Spring; a clear gap with colouring that carries depth is True Spring. A Light Spring wearing True Spring's golden yellow gets overtaken by the colour.
True Spring vs Bright Spring
Look at contrast. Bright Spring has stronger feature contrast and more saturated eyes, enough to carry bright coral red at full strength. True Spring is just as warm but one step down in intensity, so sunlit colours like golden yellow and apple green sit better.
Bright Spring vs Bright Winter
Both take high saturation; the difference is temperature. Bright Spring's clarity is warm (coral, golden, emerald), Bright Winter's is cool (cherry, bright cyan, electric violet). Most mix-ups here come from uncorrected white balance.
The family this gets confused with
Spring is most often mistaken for Autumn, since both are warm. The tell is chroma: Autumn's warmth is greyed, Spring's is clean. If rust and olive make you look washed out while coral and golden yellow lift you, you are a Spring, not an Autumn.
All three types wear gold. Silver is not forbidden, but gold brings the warm undertone up with it.
FAQ
Questions people ask
Spring and Autumn are both warm — how do I tell them apart?
By chroma, not temperature. Spring's warm colours are clean (coral, golden yellow, apple green); Autumn's are greyed (rust, olive, terracotta). The practical test is to hold each next to your face and watch your skin: Spring is lifted by clean warmth and made tired by muddiness, Autumn does the opposite.
I am a Spring — can I wear black?
You can, but keep it away from your face. Black is too heavy for all three Spring types and gets seen before you do. Use warm brown, golden brown or warm navy where you would reach for black; if you do wear it, keep it below the waist or break it up with a warm scarf or top.
I keep going back and forth between Light Spring and True Spring.
Look at the value gap between your hair and your skin. A small gap means Light Spring — you sit in one brightness band, and darks cover you. A clear gap, plus the ability to wear mid-strength warm colours without being overtaken, means True Spring. Upload a bare-faced daylight photo and the tool measures that gap directly.
