Light Spring
Light, warm and fresh, color with the lights turned up.
Light Spring is the lightest warm season. Everything about the coloring is delicate: fair skin with a golden or peach cast, light hair, and light eyes, with very little contrast between them. The palette is warm pastels and clear light brights, think peach, coral, aqua and buttercup, never anything heavy or smoky.
Depth is the dominant axis here: the palette is defined first by how light or deep it is, and only then by temperature. (Depth is what the 12-tone system calls this season's primary characteristic.)
Where this season sits
Every one of the twelve seasons is a position on three axes. These are the coordinates our analysis scores you against.
Is this you?
- Skin
- Fair to light, with a golden, peach or ivory cast; often freckled.
- Hair
- Light blonde to light golden brown, frequently with natural highlights.
- Eyes
- Light blue, light green, aqua or light hazel, often with a sunburst pattern.
- Contrast
- Low. Hair, skin and eyes all sit in a similar light range.
Light Spring celebrities
Famous faces that share Light Spring coloring. The point is the pattern in skin, hair and eyes, not a resemblance.
Amanda Seyfried
Elle Fanning
Kate Hudson
Nicole Kidman
Photos via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY / CC BY-SA / public domain. The credit for each one is on the Light Spring celebrities page.
The palette
The 20 colors that work hardest for Light Spring, with hex codes so you can match them exactly.
- Peach#FFB68F
- Coral#FF8A6B
- Apricot#F7A76C
- Salmon#FF9E93
- Warm rose#FFA6BE
- Blossom pink#F7C6D9
- Buttercup#FFE066
- Golden cream#FFD98E
- Light chartreuse#F2E08E
- Bud green#B7D97F
Neutrals to build on
- Ivory#F6EFE2
- Warm sand#E4D9C5
- Camel#C9A87C
- Light taupe#9E8C74
- Soft denim navy#5C6B8A
Metals and makeup
Best metals: Light gold, Rose gold, Champagne gold.
Lip
- Coral pink
- Peach nude
- Warm rose
Blush
- Peach
- Apricot pink
- Warm nude
How to wear the Light Spring palette
A styling example: three women who share Light Spring coloring, each in a different outfit built from this palette.
More on Light Spring
Often confused with
Watch: this season explained
Hand-picked videos on Light Spring from working color analysts, a different teacher, the same season.
LIGHT SPRING COLOR PALETTE: Your Best Colors / 12 Seasons Color Analysis
Mikaela Carrizo · YouTube
Light Spring vs Light Summer | Seasonal Color Analysis
Isabella Zamuner · YouTube
Frequently asked
What is the Light Spring color season?
Light Spring is one of the twelve seasonal color types. It is warm, strongly light and moderately bright. In practice that means peach, coral and apricot sit comfortably on you, while the colors in the avoid list make you look tired. Depth is the dominant axis here: the palette is defined first by how light or deep it is, and only then by temperature. (Depth is what the 12-tone system calls this season's primary characteristic.)
How do I know if I'm a Light Spring?
Three checks. Fair to light, with a golden, peach or ivory cast; often freckled. Light blonde to light golden brown, frequently with natural highlights. Light blue, light green, aqua or light hazel, often with a sunburst pattern. Contrast is the fourth: low. hair, skin and eyes all sit in a similar light range. If two of those four describe you, Light 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 Light Spring?
The clearest ones to drop are black, espresso brown and burgundy. Far too deep, it drains a light, low-contrast face and reads as a hole in the outfit. Full explanations for each are on the colors-to-avoid page.
Am I a Light Spring or a True Spring?
They are neighbors, which is exactly why they get confused. The deciding axis is depth: Light Spring is the light one and True Spring is the deep one. We have a full side-by-side comparison if you are torn between them.
Can a Light Spring wear black?
Not near your face. Light Spring coloring is too light for true black, it drops a hard edge under the chin and pulls shadows forward. Use Soft denim navy (#5C6B8A) instead for anything worn up top, and keep black for trousers, shoes and bags where it has no effect on your skin.
Is Light Spring warm or cool?
Warm. Light Spring sits clearly on the warm side of the temperature axis, which is why gold, peach and the rest of the Spring palette settle the skin while icy or blue-based colors leave it sallow. Its dominant axis is depth, though, so a warm color still needs the right depth to work.
Should a Light Spring wear gold or silver?
Light gold, Rose gold and Champagne 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 Light Spring color analysis work?
Light Spring color analysis places your coloring on three axes, depth, temperature and clarity, and checks they match Light Spring, which is warm, strongly light and moderately 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 Light Spring leads the neighbors it gets confused with.