Bright Spring Color Palette: Every Shade With Hex Codes

Bright Spring, also called Clear Spring, is the most vivid season in the warm half of the system: clear, high-contrast colouring with a warm cast that comes alive in hot pink-red, vivid teal and clean yellow and looks tired in anything dusty. This is the complete Bright Spring palette from the Tone & Fit app, 38 shades with hex codes, plus the five to buy first, the colours to avoid, and the metals that suit it.

What defines Bright Spring

Bright Spring is defined by chroma. Saturation comes before warmth, and the palette is built from colours at full strength with nothing softened or greyed about them. The undertone is warm but only mildly, which places Bright Spring on the border with True Winter, its cool and equally vivid sister; the two share a love of clear brights and differ mainly in whether the brights lean gold or blue. Contrast is medium to high, often with bright eyes that stand out sharply against skin and hair.

The palette is a tropical garden: vivid pink-red, orange, teal, violet, coral-red, green and yellow at the front, a second band of bright midtones behind them, and crisp, light neutrals from bright white to greige. Compared with Warm Spring it is clearer and slightly cooler; compared with Light Spring it is far more saturated. If a colour has to be bright before it looks right on you, and a muted version of the same colour makes you look ill, this is your season.

Still deciding? The Bright Spring identification guide lists the seven signs to check, and the spring colour palette shows how the three Springs compare. Also called Clear Spring.

All 38 Bright Spring colours with hex codes

This is the Bright Spring palette exactly as the Tone & Fit app stores it: 10 statement colours, 12 everyday midtones, 8 neutrals and 8 accents. Every swatch carries its hex code, so you can paste it into a shopping filter, a paint app or a moodboard. The app shows a filtered selection of these on your result screen so that no single hue family crowds out the rest.

Statement colours (10)

The ten shades that carry the season. Wear them as the main colour of an outfit.

• Vivid Warm Pink Red#FF2D55
• Vivid Orange#FF9500
• Vivid Warm Teal#00C7BE
• Vivid Warm Violet#5856D6
• Vivid Coral Red#FF6961
• Vivid Warm Green#34C759
• Vivid Yellow#FFCC02
• Vivid Hot Pink#FF3A8C
• Vivid Cyan Teal#00D4C8
• Vivid Golden Orange#FFB300

Everyday midtones (12)

Twelve softer versions for shirts, knits and layering. These are the workhorses.

• Warm Orange Mid#FF9F0A
• Bright Sky Blue#64D2FF
• Mid Green#4CD964
• Bright Yellow#FFD600
• Bright Pink#FF6482
• Mid Mint#57D68D
• Bright Violet#BF5AF2
• Bright Aqua#70D8FF
• Light Yellow#FFE100
• Warm Coral Mid#FF8A50
• Soft Violet#C77DFF
• Bright Teal#50E3C2

Neutrals (8)

Eight anchors for trousers, coats and bags. They replace the black and white that are not in this palette.

• Bright White#F5F5F0
• Warm Grey#D1CBC1
• Stone#B8AFA7
• Pale Sand#E5DFD5
• Soft White#FAF9F6
• Pebble#D6D0C6
• Greige#BDB4AB
• Shell#EAE4DA

Accents (8)

Eight deeper or brighter shades for shoes, scarves, lipstick and small doses of drama.

• Vivid Red#FF3B30
• Vivid Blue#007AFF
• Vivid Green#30D158
• Vivid Pink#FF6482
• Vivid Purple#AF52DE
• Vivid Orange#FF9F0A
• Vivid Teal#00C7BE
• Vivid Yellow#FFCC02

Bright Spring power shades: the five to buy first

Start with these five. They are the highest-chroma warm colours in the palette and the ones the app surfaces first for Bright Spring, because they meet your contrast rather than washing out against it.

• Vivid Warm Pink-Red#FF2D55
• Vivid Warm Teal#00C7BE
• Vivid Orange#FF9500
• Vivid Warm Violet#5856D6
• Vivid Yellow#FFCC02

• Vivid Warm Pink-Red #FF2D55: The colour that defines the season: hot, clear and warm-leaning.
• Vivid Warm Teal #00C7BE: A saturated teal that looks electric on you and garish on softer colouring.
• Vivid Orange #FF9500: Your orange at full volume; you are one of two seasons that can wear it near the face.
• Vivid Warm Violet #5856D6: The purple with enough clarity to hold its own against your contrast.
• Vivid Yellow #FFCC02: A clean, sunny yellow that reads as cheerful rather than sallow on Bright Spring skin.

Four Bright Spring outfit formulas

Bright Spring goes wrong when it is worn quietly. The palette is built on clarity, so a formula works when one vivid colour is given room and the rest of the outfit stays out of its way. These four combinations do that, and every colour in them is in the palette above.

Read each one as base, main colour, accent. The base is the trouser, skirt or coat; the main colour is the piece nearest your face; the accent is the bag, shoe or scarf that stops the outfit looking like a uniform.

• The signature Bright White + Vivid Teal + Vivid Warm Pink Red #F5F5F0 #00C7BE #FF2D55

  Bright white with warm teal against the face and a pink-red accent. This is the combination that looks unmistakably like your colouring rather than borrowed from someone else's.

• Daytime warm Warm Grey + Vivid Orange + Bright Sky Blue #D1CBC1 #FF9500 #64D2FF

  Warm grey trousers, orange knit, a sky blue bag. The grey is warm enough to sit under orange without dulling it, and the blue keeps the whole thing from going autumnal.

• Smart and clear Soft White + Vivid Blue + Vivid Yellow #FAF9F6 #007AFF #FFCC02

  Soft white shirt, vivid blue jacket, a yellow detail. The cleanest way to look formal without reaching for the black and charcoal that flatten Bright Spring.

• Weekend colour Stone + Vivid Hot Pink + Vivid Warm Green #B8AFA7 #FF3A8C #34C759

  Stone denim, hot pink top, green trainers or bag. Two saturated colours work here precisely because the base is quiet.

A six-piece Bright Spring capsule

Six garments, one colour each, and every combination of them works. The point of a capsule in a high-clarity palette is that the neutrals stay quiet so the brights never have to compete with each other.

Buy the coat and the trousers first. Once the base of the wardrobe is warm and neutral, every bright in the palette above becomes wearable on any ordinary morning.

Bright Spring colours to avoid

Muted is the word to avoid. Dusty rose, sage, mauve, muddy brown, camel and every greyed or earthy shade flattens your natural clarity and makes you look washed out or tired. Soft pastels are usually too weak; if you want a light colour, choose a clear, bright tint rather than a powdery one. Very dark, cool colours such as black can work as a base, but keep a vivid colour near the face so the look stays lively.

• Dusty Rose#BC8F8F
• Sage#9CAF88
• Muddy Brown#8B7355
• Dusty Mauve#B0A8B9
• Camel#C8AD7F

Five shades that work against Bright Spring colouring

• Dusty Rose: Muted and greyed, it makes bright colouring look tired.
• Sage: Soft and dusty, the exact opposite of your clarity.
• Muddy Brown: Muted, earthy and low-contrast; it swallows your features.
• Dusty Mauve: Too soft and too cool; it vanishes on you.
• Camel: Warm but dull; bright white or warm grey keeps the contrast you need.

The four near misses

These four are the ones Bright Springs actually buy by mistake. Each of them looks like it should work, which is why it ends up in the wardrobe unworn.

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  Black #000000

  It reads as the safe neutral and as the colour that makes brights pop, but against warm, clear, light-to-medium colouring it does the opposite: it drains the face and makes the brights look like they are floating. Wear Vivid Warm Violet #5856D6 instead.

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  Burgundy #800020

  Deep wine feels grown-up and looks rich on the hanger. On Bright Spring it is both too dark and too cool, and it turns a clear complexion sallow. Wear Vivid Warm Pink Red #FF2D55 instead.

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  Dusty Blue #B0C4DE

  Soft blues are sold as universally flattering. This one is greyed and cool, and next to Bright Spring colouring it looks like the light has gone out. Wear Bright Sky Blue #64D2FF instead.

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  Sienna #A0522D

  It is warm, which is half right, and that is the trap. Bright Spring warmth is clear and light; a muted earth brown is warm in the Autumn way and makes your skin look dusty. Wear Vivid Golden Orange #FFB300 instead.

Metals and jewellery for Bright Spring

Bright, polished metals. Yellow gold and polished brass suit the warm cast of the palette, and Bright Spring is one of the few seasons that can mix gold and silver in the same outfit, because the contrast itself is flattering. Antiqued or brushed finishes are less successful; they read as muted. Bright stones such as turquoise, citrine and clear crystal all work.

Best metals: Bright yellow gold, polished brass, mixed metals.

Sister seasons and neighbours

Bright Spring borders True Winter and Warm Spring. If you sit between two of them, wear the colours the palettes share and skip the extremes of each. The full spring palette puts all three Spring sub-seasons side by side, and the 12 colour seasons guide explains how the whole system fits together.

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