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.

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.

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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