Spring colour palette
Warm, clear and light — colour with the sun in it.
Spring is the warm, bright half of the colour wheel. Every Spring palette is golden-based and clear rather than dusty, running to coral, peach, warm turquoise and golden yellow. If your colouring has visible warmth and a natural brightness to it, you are somewhere in Spring.
What unites all three Springs is warmth combined with clarity. Nothing in a Spring palette is greyed or smoky — even the softest Spring colours stay clean. That is the fastest way to tell Spring from Autumn, which shares the warmth but adds dust.
The three spring seasons
"Spring" on its own is too broad to shop from. These three are where it actually splits.
The combined spring palette
Colours that work across the whole family — safe ground while you narrow down which sub-season you are.
- Peach#FFB68F
- Coral orange#FF7043
- Hot coral red#FF5252
- Coral#FF8A6B
- Bright tangerine#F4511E
- Vivid coral#FF6E40
- Apricot#F7A76C
- Salmon coral#FF8A5C
- Bright orange#FF3D00
- Salmon#FF9E93
- Warm poppy#E85D4E
- Vivid gold#FFC400
- Warm rose#FFA6BE
- Golden yellow#FFB300
- Lemon#FFEA00
- Blossom pink#F7C6D9
- Daffodil#FFD54F
- Bright lime#AEEA00
- Buttercup#FFE066
- Amber#F9A825
Spring palettes in detail
Frequently asked
What is the spring colour palette?
Spring is the warm, bright half of the colour wheel. Every Spring palette is golden-based and clear rather than dusty, running to coral, peach, warm turquoise and golden yellow. If your colouring has visible warmth and a natural brightness to it, you are somewhere in Spring. The palette on this page combines the strongest colours from all three spring sub-seasons — Light Spring, True Spring, Bright Spring — so it is a good starting point before you narrow down.
What are the three spring seasons?
Light Spring is warm, strongly light and moderately bright. True Spring is strongly warm, moderately light and bright. Bright Spring is moderately warm, moderately light and strongly bright. Each has its own palette page with full hex codes.
How do I know which spring I am?
What unites all three Springs is warmth combined with clarity. Nothing in a Spring palette is greyed or smoky — even the softest Spring colours stay clean. That is the fastest way to tell Spring from Autumn, which shares the warmth but adds dust. Once you know you are in the spring family, the remaining question is which characteristic dominates — depth, temperature or clarity. Our free analysis scores all twelve seasons and tells you which spring you land on, and by how much.
Is spring a warm or cool season?
Warm. Every colour in a spring palette is golden-based. If gold jewellery flatters you more than silver, and cream suits you better than pure white, you are in a warm family.