True Spring Color Palette (Warm Spring)

True Spring is the warmest of the three Spring types in 12-season color analysis. Warmth leads and clarity follows. The palette looks like a tropical fruit stand: mango, coral, lime and turquoise, all clear and golden-based, with nothing grey or icy in it.

True Springs usually have light to medium coloring with medium contrast. Typical signs:

• hair in golden blonde, strawberry, golden or copper brown;
• eyes in warm green, hazel, topaz or clear blue with warmth around the pupil;
• peachy or golden skin that may freckle and tans golden;
• black and grey make you look tired, while coral and turquoise make your skin glow.

A quick test: compare a coral top with a dusty rose one. If coral looks bright and fresh while dusty rose looks flat, you are on the True Spring side.

Ivory, cream, camel, warm beige and warm navy are your neutrals. Use coral, turquoise, kelly green and golden yellow as everyday colors, and tomato red, mango and bright orange as accents. Clear warm colors near your face are what make you look rested. Gold-toned frames, watches and hardware suit you better than silver.

Black, charcoal, icy pink, dusty rose, burgundy, cool fuchsia, blue grey and deep purple are your colors to avoid. They are too cool, too dark or too muted for your warm, clear coloring. Keep them away from the face and choose ivory, camel or a bright warm color near it.

Coral, warm red, peach and warm pink lipsticks suit you, with coral, peach or apricot blush. Golden brown, bronze, warm green and turquoise work well on the eyes. Hair looks best in golden blonde to golden or copper brown with honey or caramel highlights; ash tones and blue-black flatten you. Yellow gold, brass and copper are your metals, with coral, turquoise and citrine.

True Spring is most often confused with True Autumn. Both are warm, so the question is clarity: if clear coral, turquoise and golden yellow beat rust, olive and mustard, you are the Spring. Its other neighbors are Light Spring, which is paler, and Bright Spring, which is more intense and higher in contrast.

See the palettes side by side: True Autumn and Bright Spring.

If you are torn between True Spring and True Autumn or Bright Spring, compare two colors from each palette under your chin in daylight; the one that makes your skin look smoother and your eyes clearer wins. A photo is a second opinion: the free selfie analysis reads your skin, hair and eye colors, and the color analysis quiz works without a photo. If it says Spring, the paid report tells you whether you are this type or a neighbor, with a printable True Spring color card. See pricing.

Yes. Some systems call it True Spring, others Warm Spring; both describe the warmest Spring type.

Black is usually too heavy. Warm navy or milk chocolate gives a darker neutral that keeps your glow.

Yellow gold, brass and copper. Silver can look cold against golden skin.