Light Spring
warm & delicate
Light Spring is warm, light and gently clear. The colouring is delicate — think fair skin with a golden warmth, light hair with warm highlights, soft eyes — so the palette stays warm and airy, never heavy or muted.
Your black
Your black is a warm greige — a soft taupe-grey, not true black. Use it where others reach for black: the trouser, the coat, the bag. Real black sits on you like a shadow; the greige holds the same anchoring job without draining your face.
Your palette
Anchors
Statement colours
Metals
Yellow gold and rose gold, kept light and bright. Heavy antique metals and cold steel pull against your warmth. (yellow gold, rose gold.)
Colours to sidestep
Black, cold greys and heavy dark purples don't fight your colouring so much as flatten it — the light goes out of your face. Nothing here is a rule; it's just where you have less to gain.
Are you Light Spring, or the neighbour?
True Spring wears its warmth stronger and brighter — deeper golds and clearer corals. If those feel a touch loud and you look better in the softer, lighter version of the same warm colours, you're Light Spring.
More on True Spring →Light Summer shares your lightness but runs cool — its blues and roses have a grey, powdery edge. Hold a warm peach against a cool rose: whichever brightens your skin is your side. Warm peach wins for Light Spring.
More on Light Summer →Questions
- Can Light Springs wear grey?
- A warm, light greige — yes, and it's your best neutral. Cold slate and charcoal are the ones that dull you.
- What white suits Light Spring?
- A soft ivory or cream. Optic bright-white is a little cold and hard against your warm, light colouring.
Not sure you're Light Spring? The free quiz gives you your season in two questions — and the app reads a photo and confirms your exact sub-season, then shops the palette.