One of the three spring color palettes
Bright Spring color palette
Maximum clarity, warm color turned all the way up.
20 colors to wear
Not sure you are a Bright Spring?
Free for your best and worst palette. All 12 in the full report.
All 20 Bright Spring colors, with hex codes
The colors that work hardest for Bright Spring, each with its hex code so you can match it exactly when you shop.
- Hot coral red#FF5252
- Vivid coral#FF6E40
- Bright orange#FF3D00
- Vivid gold#FFC400
- Lemon#FFEA00
- Bright lime#AEEA00
- Vivid green#64DD17
- Emerald#00C853
- Bright jade#00BFA5
- Electric turquoise#00E5FF
- Vivid blue#00B0FF
- True bright blue#2979FF
- Bright violet#651FFF
- Vivid orchid#D500F9
- Hot pink#FF4081
- Bright fuchsia#F50057
- Clear pink#FF80AB
- Bright mint#1DE9B6
- Bright apricot#FFAB40
- Spring green#B2FF59
Neutrals to build on
Buy these first. Neutrals are what you wear most, and they are where most wardrobe mistakes happen.
- Bright ivory#FFFDF5
- Warm stone#D7CCC8
- Warm cocoa#8D6E63
- Dark warm brown#3E2723
- Bright navy#1A3A5C
Bright Spring is the most saturated warm season and sits right beside Winter on the color wheel. The coloring is vivid and high-contrast: bright clear eyes against warm skin. It needs colors that are genuinely intense, hot coral, emerald, true turquoise, and it is the one Spring that can carry near-black warm neutrals.
Clarity is the dominant axis here: how muted or how vivid a color is matters more than whether it is warm or cool. (Clarity is what the 12-tone system calls this season's primary characteristic.)
Bright Spring on the four traits
Undertone, depth and chroma are the three positions our analysis scores you against. The fourth trait, contrast, is part of the chroma reading.
- Palette lightness (L*)
- 6912-season range 36 to 79Mean CIELAB lightness of the palette, 0 is black, 100 is white.
- Palette chroma (C*)
- 7912-season range 15 to 79Mean CIELAB chroma of the palette: higher is brighter.
- Contrast
- High. Bright eyes against skin create a crisp, sparkling effect.
Is this you?
- Skin
- Clear warm ivory to golden beige, with a bright, almost porcelain quality.
- Hair
- Golden blonde to bright warm brown, often with strong natural contrast against skin.
- Eyes
- Vivid, bright blue, bright green or clear topaz. The eyes are usually the giveaway.
- Contrast
- High. Bright eyes against skin create a crisp, sparkling effect.
See your face in the Bright Spring colors
Free for your best and worst palette. All 12 in the full report.
Bright Spring celebrities
Famous faces that share Bright Spring coloring. The point is the pattern in skin, hair and eyes, not a resemblance.
Adriana Lima
Alexa Chung
Emma Stone
Jennifer Lopez
Photos via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY / CC BY-SA / public domain. The credit for each one is on the Bright Spring celebrities page.
Metals and makeup
Best metals: Bright yellow gold, Polished silver, White gold.
Lip
- Bright coral red
- Hot pink
- Poppy
Blush
- Vivid coral
- Bright pink
- Clear peach
How to wear the Bright Spring palette
A styling example: three women who share Bright Spring coloring, each in a different outfit built from this palette.
More on Bright Spring
Often confused with
Bright Spring or True Spring?
Free for your best and worst palette. All 12 in the full report.
Watch: this season explained
Hand-picked videos on Bright Spring from working color analysts, a different teacher, the same season.
BRIGHT SPRING COLOR PALETTE AND SEASONAL GUIDE / 12 Seasons Color Analysis
Mikaela Carrizo · YouTube
How to Find your Color Season: Bright, True & Light SPRING Color Analysis
Isabella Zamuner · YouTube
How we know this
5,422
published season labels
We collected the celebrity seasons that 62 sites published and compared them, person by person.
Do the sources agree? →410
photos in our accuracy test
We ran our own analysis on celebrity photos and published every result, misses included.
The results →45
checked papers and books
Our encyclopedia pages cite only these, and cut any claim that has no checked source.
The source list →468
face points placed on each face
The points find your cheeks, forehead and eyes, so skin is read only there.
How it works →
Written by Ruslan Shchuchkin, ML engineer and data scientist, who built the measurement, and Jane Mitchell, certified color analyst, who writes the style guides.
Frequently asked
What colors are in the Bright Spring color palette?
20 wearable colors, listed at the top of this page with their hex codes, plus 5 neutrals to build a wardrobe around. You do not need all of them, most people live in six or seven, and the neutrals do the heavy lifting.
What is the Bright Spring color season?
Bright Spring is one of the twelve seasonal color types. It is moderately warm, moderately light and strongly bright. In practice that means hot coral red, vivid coral and bright orange sit comfortably on you, while the colors in the avoid list make you look tired. Clarity is the dominant axis here: how muted or how vivid a color is matters more than whether it is warm or cool. (Clarity is what the 12-tone system calls this season's primary characteristic.)
How do I know if I'm a Bright Spring?
Three checks. Clear warm ivory to golden beige, with a bright, almost porcelain quality. Golden blonde to bright warm brown, often with strong natural contrast against skin. Vivid, bright blue, bright green or clear topaz. The eyes are usually the giveaway. Contrast is the fourth: high. bright eyes against skin create a crisp, sparkling effect. If two of those four describe you, Bright Spring is very likely your season, our free analysis scores all twelve and tells you how close the runners-up are.
What are the worst colors for a Bright Spring?
The clearest ones to drop are medium gray, sage and muted beige. Neutral gray is the single worst color here, it mutes a season built on clarity. Full explanations for each are on the colors-to-avoid page.
Am I a Bright Spring or a True Spring?
They are neighbors, which is exactly why they get confused. The deciding axis is undertone: Bright Spring is the cooler one and True Spring is the warmer one. We have a full side-by-side comparison if you are torn between them.
Can a Bright Spring wear black?
Not near your face. Bright Spring coloring is too gentle for true black, it drops a hard edge under the chin and pulls shadows forward. Use Bright navy (#1A3A5C) instead for anything worn up top, and keep black for trousers, shoes and bags where it has no effect on your skin.
Is Bright Spring warm or cool?
Warm. Bright Spring sits clearly on the warm side of the temperature axis, which is why gold, hot coral red and the rest of the Spring palette settle the skin while icy or blue-based colors leave it sallow. Its dominant axis is clarity, though, so a warm color still needs the right clarity to work.
Should a Bright Spring wear gold or silver?
Bright yellow gold, Polished silver and White gold. Metal is one of the fastest at-home tests there is: hold silver and gold either side of your face in daylight and watch your skin rather than the jewelry, the wrong metal leaves a gray or sallow cast along the jaw.
How does Bright Spring color analysis work?
Bright Spring color analysis places your coloring on three axes, depth, temperature and clarity, and checks they match Bright Spring, which is moderately warm, moderately light and strongly bright. You can approximate it at home with the metal, vein and contrast tests, but those disagree often. Our free analysis settles it: it scores all twelve seasons from your answers and one photo, so you see how far Bright Spring leads the neighbors it gets confused with.
What is the best color for a Bright Spring to wear near the face?
Hot coral red (#FF5252) is the safest high-impact choice. Anything worn near the face, collars, scarves, knitwear, has the strongest effect on how your skin reads, so spend the palette there first and worry about trousers later.
Can I use the Bright Spring hex codes for makeup or hair dye?
Use them for clothing and accessories, where a screen color maps reasonably well to fabric. For makeup and hair, use the dedicated pages, pigment on skin behaves differently from dye on cloth, and the recommended shades there account for that.