Light Spring color palette: a cozy corner painted in its colors

Spring · Color season

Light Spring color palette

Light and warm

Light and warm, like a spring morning with the windows open.

Your coloring is light and golden, with a fresh glow. Airy, warm colors with a little sparkle wake up your face; anything dark or heavy takes over.

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The Light Spring palette: 24 colors

With their names and hex codes. The first twelve are the essentials; the other twelve round out the palette.

The essentials

  • Butter#FBE7A1
  • Peach#FFCFAE
  • Salmon#F9A98B
  • Blush#FFC2C7
  • Apricot#F7C27E
  • Mint#B8E2C8
  • Aquamarine#8FD9CF
  • Periwinkle#A8C0F0
  • Sand#E8D3B0
  • Pistachio#B5D99C
  • Honey#F2B66B
  • Ivory#F7EFD9

More colors

  • Lemon#FFF1A8
  • Melon#FFB38A
  • Coral#FF8F7A
  • Watermelon#FF7F8E
  • Wisteria#C9B3F0
  • Sky blue#9CD3F5
  • Turquoise#4FCFC4
  • Leaf green#8CCB7A
  • Camel#D9B07E
  • Golden#E8B84F
  • Latte#B8916A
  • Cornflower#7FA7E8

Light Spring neutrals, metal and lips

Neutrals

  • Ivory #F7EFD9
  • Sand #E8D3B0
  • Latte #B8916A

Metal

Light gold

Your white

  • Ivory #F7EFD9

Your black

  • Latte #B8916A

For your lips

  • Salmon #F9A98B
  • Coral #FF8F7A
  • Watermelon #FF7F8E

Light Spring hair and makeup

Hair

Light Spring hair color usually looks best light and golden: honey, butter or strawberry blonde. On dark hair, soft caramel or honey highlights around the face bring the same lift, and gray stays fresh when it leans creamy, close to ivory. Ash tones and flat black tend to feel too cool and heavy.

Makeup

Light Spring makeup stays fresh and sheer. Try a peach or apricot blush, then salmon, coral or watermelon on the lips, and butter, honey or latte on the eyes with a soft brown liner. Skip black liner and burgundy or aubergine lipstick, which tend to sit heavily on such light coloring.

Light Spring colors to avoid

The ones that dull this coloring most, next to the face.

  • Black #111111
  • Burgundy #6D1A36
  • Charcoal #3C3F45
  • Aubergine #3C1E5A

Where it sits

Every season is a point on three axes: undertone, depth and chroma. The one that defines it is marked.

Undertone: Warm

CoolWarm

Golden, peach or olive undertones: colors with a touch of yellow light you up.

Depth: Light Defining trait

LightDeep

Light hair, eyes or skin: soft, airy colors are your best.

Chroma: Medium

SoftBright

Neighboring seasons

The two closest to Light Spring: if a color here doesn’t convince you, look at theirs.

Opposite season

The palette furthest from Light Spring.

How to wear it

  • Wear your colors close to your face: a top, a scarf, your glasses. Further away, they matter less.
  • Build on your neutrals, then add one or two colors from the palette.
  • Try them in daylight, next to your face: the right ones even out your skin and light up your eyes.

A test can’t see you, so take it as a starting point: try your colors next to your face, in daylight.

All twelve seasons