Light Spring Color Palette: Every Shade With Hex Codes

Light Spring is the lightest and most delicate season in the warm half of the system: fair, warm colouring with low contrast that glows in coral, butter yellow and mint and disappears under anything dark or heavy. This is the complete Light Spring palette from the Tone & Fit app, 38 shades with hex codes, plus the five to buy first, the colours that swamp you, and the metals that suit the palette.

What defines Light Spring

Light Spring is defined by value: lightness comes before warmth. Skin, hair and eyes all sit at the light end of their ranges and close together in depth, so the overall impression is soft, low-contrast and luminous. The undertone is warm, though gently so, which places Light Spring on the border with Light Summer, its cool sister. Chroma is medium: colours should be clear rather than dusty, but never so saturated that they shout.

The palette is a warm watercolour: light coral, butter yellow, mint, warm aqua, peach and warm pink at the front, a wide band of pale midtones behind them, and neutrals built from ivory, sand, oat and linen. Compared with Warm Spring, everything is a step lighter and less intense; compared with Light Summer, everything carries a drop of gold rather than a drop of blue. If a colour has to be light and warm before it looks right on you, this is your season.

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

All 38 Light Spring colours with hex codes

This is the Light 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.

• Light Coral#FF9A76
• Butter Yellow#FFD166
• Mint Green#A8E6CF
• Light Warm Aqua#7EC8E3
• Light Warm Pink#FFB6C1
• Soft Warm Sky Blue#B5D8F7
• Warm Peach#FFCA99
• Light Lime Green#CDEB8B
• Warm Blush Pink#F4A7B9
• Warm Sky Blue#87CEEB

Everyday midtones (12)

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

• Soft Blush#FADADD
• Pale Butter#FFF0C0
• Soft Mint#C9E4CA
• Pale Aqua#B5DEDD
• Pale Warm Yellow#FFEAA7
• Soft Sky#D8EEF5
• Pale Peach#FDD9B5
• Soft Sage#D4EDDA
• Misty Rose#FFE4E1
• Light Warm Green#E8F4D9
• Warm Cream#FFECD2
• Soft Warm Blue#C8E6F0

Neutrals (8)

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

• Warm Ivory#F5F0E1
• Sand#D2C6A5
• Light Taupe#C4B8A0
• Oat#E8DCC8
• Cream#FAF3E0
• Pale Khaki#D5CAAD
• Wheat#BFB393
• Linen#EDE3D0

Accents (8)

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

• Vivid Coral#FF6F61
• Vivid Golden Yellow#F7CE46
• Vivid Mint#88D8B0
• Vivid Warm Aqua#5BC8E8
• Vivid Warm Pink#FF9EC0
• Vivid Lime#A8E45A
• Vivid Orange#FF8040
• Vivid Warm Sky Blue#6EC6FF

Light Spring power shades: the five to buy first

Start with these five. They are the clearest light-warm colours in the palette and the ones the app surfaces first for Light Spring, because they match your depth instead of overpowering it.

• Light Coral#FF9A76
• Butter Yellow#FFD166
• Mint Green#A8E6CF
• Light Warm Aqua#7EC8E3
• Warm Peach#FFCA99

• Light Coral #FF9A76: The signature Light Spring colour: warm, fresh and never heavy.
• Butter Yellow #FFD166: Yellow is hard for most seasons and easy for you; this is the shade to prove it.
• Mint Green #A8E6CF: A clear, light green that reads as glowing rather than washed out on warm-light colouring.
• Light Warm Aqua #7EC8E3: Your blue: light, warm-leaning and clean.
• Warm Peach #FFCA99: The colour that most closely matches your own skin and makes it look lit from within.

Four Light Spring outfit formulas

Light Spring works in the top half of the value range. The mistake is reaching for a dark anchor: the moment something heavy enters the outfit, the delicate colours above it stop looking deliberate. These four keep the whole outfit light and let one warm colour lead.

Read each one as base, main colour, accent. Light does not mean washed out, and the accent is what stops it drifting there.

• The signature Warm Ivory + Light Coral + Light Warm Aqua #F5F0E1 #FF9A76 #7EC8E3

  Warm ivory base, light coral at the face, a warm aqua accent. Coral is the colour Light Spring is built around, and the aqua keeps it fresh instead of sweet.

• Soft daylight Oat + Butter Yellow + Mint Green #E8DCC8 #FFD166 #A8E6CF

  Oat trousers, butter yellow knit, mint accessories. A whole outfit of pale warm colours, which on Light Spring reads as light rather than faded.

• Smart and light Cream + Warm Sky Blue + Vivid Coral #FAF3E0 #87CEEB #FF6F61

  Cream shirt, warm sky blue jacket, a vivid coral bag or lip. The blue does the work black would do elsewhere, and it does it without weight.

• Weekend warmth Sand + Warm Peach + Vivid Lime #D2C6A5 #FFCA99 #A8E45A

  Sand denim, warm peach top, lime accents. The sand is the closest Light Spring gets to a dark neutral, and it is exactly as deep as this palette should go.

A six-piece Light Spring capsule

Six garments, one colour each. In a light palette the discipline is not which colours to buy but how deep to let any of them go, and nothing here goes past sand.

Buy the trousers and the cream shirt first. They are what make a coral or an aqua look like a decision rather than an accident.

Light Spring colours to avoid

Depth and coldness are the problems. Black, deep indigo, burgundy and saddle brown are simply too heavy for light colouring and make you look like the outfit is wearing you. Cool colours such as slate grey, icy blue and cool purple pull the warmth out of your skin and leave it looking pale. Dusty, muted shades are less of a disaster but still cost you clarity. Where you need a dark, use a warm mid-tone instead: light taupe, warm sand or a soft camel.

• Black#000000
• Deep Indigo#4B0082
• Slate Grey#708090
• Burgundy#800020
• Saddle Brown#8B4513

Five shades that work against Light Spring colouring

• Black: The heaviest colour there is against the lightest colouring in the system.
• Deep Indigo: Dark and cool; it overwhelms light features completely.
• Slate Grey: Cool and muddy against warm, delicate colouring.
• Burgundy: Too dark and too blue-based; it makes light skin look pale.
• Saddle Brown: Warm but far too deep; oat and light taupe are your browns.

The four near misses

Every one of these looks like a Light Spring colour until it is next to your face. The problem is never the hue; it is depth or temperature.

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  Navy #000080

  Presented everywhere as the softer black, and it is, but not softly enough. Navy is several steps darker than anything in this palette and it makes light colouring look tired by comparison. Wear Warm Sky Blue #87CEEB instead.

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  Cool Blush #E0BFB8

  A pale pink that should be perfect and is not: it is cool-based, and against a warm, light complexion it goes chalky rather than fresh. Wear Warm Blush Pink #F4A7B9 instead.

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  Olive #808000

  Warm, which is the half that tempts you. It is also dark and muted, and both of those fight a palette built on light, clear warmth. Wear Light Lime Green #CDEB8B instead.

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  Wine #722F37

  The classic autumn-evening colour. On Light Spring it is so much deeper than the face that the face is what disappears. Wear Vivid Coral #FF6F61 instead.

Metals and jewellery for Light Spring

Light, warm metals. Light yellow gold, rose gold and champagne gold all flatter a warm, delicate undertone; a heavy, dark antique gold can look too weighty. Silver reads cold on you, though a very pale, warm-leaning white gold can pass. Pearls, pale coral and light amber stones suit the palette better than anything dark or dramatic.

Best metals: Light yellow gold, rose gold, champagne gold.

Sister seasons and neighbours

Light Spring borders Light Summer 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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