Color Season
Light Spring Color Palette
Light Spring is warm-neutral (predominantly warm with subtle cool influence from Summer) with light value and medium chroma. Your primary characteristic is lightness - you have the highest overall value of all seasons.
The full Light Spring palette — 71 colors.
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Colors to use sparingly
These shades tend to fight Light Spring coloring — too pure or saturated for a Light Spring palette. Wear them only as small accents away from the face, if at all.
Light Spring characteristics
The defining quality of Light Spring is lightness.
- Undertone
- warm-neutral (predominantly warm with subtle cool influence from Summer)
- Value
- light (highest overall value of all seasons with lots of tints - colors with white added)
- Chroma
- medium leaning slightly bright (softly vibrant, not neon or muted earth tones)
- Contrast
- low (blended, gentle - not high contrast)
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Best neutrals for Light Spring
- Black: soft navy or medium clear blue (not jet black or stark black - too harsh and overwhelming)
- White: ivory, champagne, cream (not stark white - too harsh)
The Light Spring mood
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Light Spring — frequently asked
Is Light Spring warm or cool?
Light Spring has a warm-neutral (predominantly warm with subtle cool influence from Summer) undertone. Its defining quality is lightness.
What does the Light Spring color palette look like?
Light Spring is warm-neutral (predominantly warm with subtle cool influence from Summer) with light value and medium chroma. Your primary characteristic is lightness - you have the highest overall value of all seasons.
What black and white should a Light Spring wear?
For black, choose soft navy or medium clear blue (not jet black or stark black - too harsh and overwhelming). For white, choose ivory, champagne, cream (not stark white - too harsh).
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