True Spring
warm & golden
True Spring is warm and golden with real clarity — hue-led, meaning warmth is the headline. Warm skin, often with golden or peachy depth, and hair and eyes that carry warmth. The palette is fresh, sunlit and saturated.
Your black
Your black is a warm mid-brown — a golden coffee. It grounds an outfit the way black does for others, but it keeps the warmth your colouring runs on.
Your palette
Anchors
Statement colours
Metals
Yellow gold, copper and bronze — the warm, glowing metals. Silver and platinum read cold and a little lifeless. (yellow gold, copper, bronze.)
Colours to sidestep
Black, cool dusty tones and greyed pastels mute the thing that makes you look well — the warmth and the clarity. Swap them for warm browns and clear brights.
Are you True Spring, or the neighbour?
Light Spring is the lighter, softer cousin. If full-strength warm brights (clear coral, golden yellow) energise you rather than overwhelm you, you're True Spring, not Light.
More on Light Spring →Bright Spring pushes toward high contrast and near-electric clarity, with a cool edge creeping in. If your best colours are unmistakably warm and golden rather than icy-bright, you're True Spring.
More on Bright Spring →Questions
- What's the best neutral for True Spring?
- Warm browns — camel, tan, golden coffee — over black or grey. They anchor without cooling your palette.
- Can True Springs wear navy?
- A warm, lighter navy works; a cold inky navy is heavier than your colouring wants.
Not sure you're True 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.