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Warm Spring colour palette

Fully warm at 1.00, with medium depth and contrast and colours that stay clear rather than earthy.

Last reviewed 14 September 2026By Sravya

Editorial saree reference for the warm spring palette

The four scores that place it

colour

Temperature

1.00

warm, golden base

Depth

0.00

medium

Contrast

0.00

medium

Chroma

0.65

clear, bright

The palette

  • MarigoldMarigold, #F28C28
  • GoldGold, #F6C445
  • LeafLeaf, #73B66B
  • LagoonLagoon, #2AAFA3
  • CoralCoral, #E85D75
  • AmberAmber, #C97845

Each axis runs from about -1 to +1 and is scored separately. These are editorial centres for a repeatable comparison, and the hex values are screen references rather than measured standards. Scoring the four apart is what lets the tool tell you which single call was the shaky one, instead of handing you a season and no reasoning.

Find my colour season

The warm spring colour palette is built from golden, clear shades at full warmth: marigold, gold, leaf green, lagoon teal, coral and amber. These are sunny colours that stay fresh rather than earthy, sitting at the maximum warmth score of 1.00 with a chroma of 0.65 that keeps them bright. The same season is written as the warm spring color palette in American spelling.

Colouring in this season is golden throughout: warm skin, hair from golden blonde through copper to warm mid-brown, and eyes in green, warm hazel or golden brown. The season shares its perfect warmth score with Warm Autumn, but the separator is chroma. Warm Spring sits at 0.65, meaning clear and fresh. Warm Autumn sits at -0.70, meaning muted and earthy. Both are golden; only one is bright.

How to check whether this is your season

Confirm warmth first. Gold jewellery should look obviously better than silver, and cream should beat optical white next to your face without much argument.

Then test brightness. Hold a clear marigold or fresh coral against your face, then a muted rust or olive. Warm Spring lifts with the clear colour and can look slightly dulled by the earthy one.

Check depth is medium. At 0 this season is neither light nor deep. If very light colours wash you out, you are correctly placed rather than a Light Spring.

What it gets mistaken for

  • Mistaken for

    Warm Autumn

    Identical temperature at 1.00. Chroma decides it: 0.65 clear here against -0.70 muted there. Clear marigold against muted rust settles it.

  • Mistaken for

    Clear Spring

    Clear Spring is brighter still at chroma 1.00 and much higher contrast at 1.00 against 0 here. If you can carry very high contrast, look there.

Every season, every colour

12 seasons · 72 shades

Light Spring

Warm Spring

Clear Spring

Light Summer

Cool Summer

Soft Summer

Soft Autumn

Warm Autumn

Deep Autumn

Deep Winter

Cool Winter

Clear Winter

These are the actual palettes the colour tool works from, not a sample. Point at one to hold it. Twelve seasons rather than the old four, because four cannot separate someone light and cool from someone deep and cool.

The principle behind every suggestion below

Everything should read golden and fresh at once. Warmth without clarity turns earthy, and clarity without warmth turns cold.

Your colours

This palette lives in the range most people describe as sunny. The colours have yellow in them and they are not softened or greyed.

Worth reaching for

  • Marigold, golden yellow and warm amber
  • Fresh leaf green and lagoon teal
  • Coral and warm true red
  • Camel, warm beige and golden brown as neutrals

Works against it

  • Blue-based pinks and icy pastels
  • Black and pure cool grey
  • Dusty, greyed versions of your own colours
  • Pure optical white, which is too stark against golden skin

The quickest confirmation

Hold clear coral against your face, then dusty rose. If coral wakes the face up and dusty rose flattens it, you are in a clear warm season.

This tests warmth and chroma in one move, which are the two axes that place this season. It does not separate Warm Spring from Clear Spring, but it rules out every summer and autumn season quickly.

Where people go wrong

  • Being placed in autumn because of warmth

    Warmth alone does not make a season autumn. Both families are warm. Chroma is the axis that separates them, and a Warm Spring in autumn colours looks tired rather than golden.

  • Wearing black at the neckline

    At full warmth, black introduces a cool depth this colouring has nothing to answer with. Warm brown or deep teal does the same job without the clash.

  • Choosing beige that is actually cool

    Much of what is sold as beige is grey-based. A warm beige has yellow in it. Held side by side the difference is obvious, and only one of them works here.

Common questions

Sources and review record

Not sure this is you?

The tool scores temperature, depth, contrast and chroma separately across all twelve seasons, then shows which of the four calls was closest to a boundary. That is the honest answer to why different sites give you different seasons.

Find my colour season

The twelve colour seasons

Or see all the guides.

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