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

Summer · Color season

Light Summer color palette

Light and cool

Light and cool, like the sea at seven in the morning.

Your coloring is light and delicate, with a rosy, cool touch. Soft pastels with a hint of blue make your skin look rested; strong darks and hot oranges swallow you up.

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The Light Summer palette: 24 colors

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

The essentials

  • Baby pink#F6D3DE
  • Rose#E7A6B7
  • Lilac#E3C4E6
  • Wisteria#C9C6EE
  • Baby blue#B9D7F2
  • Steel blue#9FB6CD
  • Seafoam#A7DCD6
  • Icy mint#CDE6C4
  • Mist#D8D3E0
  • Dove gray#BFC8D6
  • Icy pink#F7E6EE
  • Pearl#F2F0EB

More colors

  • Lavender#C3B4E0
  • Raspberry#D9809E
  • Periwinkle#A3B5E8
  • Aquamarine#8FD0D0
  • Sage#A9C1AE
  • Jade#7FBFAE
  • Slate#8C9BAE
  • Denim#6E86A8
  • Mauve#B79AB5
  • Mushroom#A89C94
  • Icy lilac#ECE4F4
  • Cherry blossom#F4BFD0

Light Summer neutrals, metal and lips

Neutrals

  • Pearl #F2F0EB
  • Dove gray #BFC8D6
  • Denim #6E86A8

Metal

Silver

Your white

  • Pearl #F2F0EB

Your black

  • Denim #6E86A8

For your lips

  • Rose #E7A6B7
  • Raspberry #D9809E
  • Cherry blossom #F4BFD0

Light Summer hair and makeup

Hair

Light Summer hair color tends to sit in the pale, cool range: ash blonde, pearl blonde, light ash brown. Darker hair stays soft with fine beige-ash highlights and no brassy warmth, and gray suits this season well, especially a pearly silver. Copper, gold and harsh black usually overpower such delicate, rosy coloring.

Makeup

Light Summer makeup works best sheer and cool. Start with a baby pink blush, then rose, raspberry or cherry blossom on the lips, kept light, and lilac, pearl or mauve on the eyes with a denim or slate liner. Skip black liner and pumpkin or chocolate shades, which tend to swallow this light coloring.

Light Summer colors to avoid

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

  • Black #111111
  • Pumpkin #C1632F
  • Mustard #C9A227
  • Chocolate #3E2418

Where it sits

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

Undertone: Cool

CoolWarm

Blue, pink or rosy undertones: colors with a touch of blue 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 Summer: if a color here doesn’t convince you, look at theirs.

Opposite season

The palette furthest from Light Summer.

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