Warm Spring Color Palette: Every Shade With Hex Codes

Warm Spring, also called True Spring, is warmth at its clearest: golden undertone, medium depth, and colours that look like sunlight rather than earth. This is the complete Warm Spring palette from the Tone & Fit app, 38 shades with hex codes, plus the five to buy first, the shades that dull you, and the metals that suit a golden undertone.

What defines Warm Spring

Warm Spring sits in the centre of the Spring family and is defined by temperature. The undertone is pure warm, golden or peachy, and the colours that flatter it carry the same gold. Value is light to medium and chroma is medium to high, so colours should be clear and lively rather than dusty; the difference between Warm Spring and its sister season Warm Autumn is exactly that clarity. A Spring orange is coral, an Autumn orange is rust.

The palette is a farmers' market in June: coral-orange, golden yellow, warm turquoise, leafy green, apricot, amber and warm teal, with camel, honey beige, toffee and ivory as the anchors. Compared with Light Spring it is deeper and more saturated; compared with Bright Spring it is warmer and slightly softer. If a colour needs to be warm and clear before it looks right on you, you belong here.

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

All 38 Warm Spring colours with hex codes

This is the Warm 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 Coral Orange#FF6B35
• Golden Yellow#E8AA14
• Warm Medium Green#2E8B57
• Warm Turquoise#009DB5
• Warm Orange#FF8C42
• Golden Amber#DAA520
• Spring Green#3CB371
• Deep Warm Coral#D94F30
• Warm Teal#5BA0A0
• Warm Gold#CFB53B

Everyday midtones (12)

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

• Warm Golden Orange#F5A623
• Bright Warm Green#7CB518
• Muted Coral#E07A5F
• Warm Sky Teal#4AADCF
• Amber Gold#D4A017
• Warm Apricot#EFA94A
• Lime Green#85C428
• Warm Terracotta#E78F6D
• Warm Cyan#55C1C0
• Olive Gold#BDA10E
• Warm Tangerine#F2B134
• Warm Medium Green#6DAF6A

Neutrals (8)

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

• Butter Cream#F2E8CF
• Camel#C9A96E
• Warm Tan#A68A64
• Sandstone#DDD0B6
• Ivory#F5EDDA
• Honey Beige#CCAF78
• Toffee#AA8F6A
• Oatmeal#E0D5BC

Accents (8)

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

• Vivid Red Orange#FF4500
• Vivid Warm Teal#00A878
• Vivid Golden Yellow#FFD700
• Vivid Terracotta#E55934
• Vivid Warm Green#32CD32
• Vivid Orange#FF6600
• Vivid Turquoise#00B8A9
• Vivid Amber#F4A302

Warm Spring power shades: the five to buy first

Start with these five. They are the clearest, most golden colours in the palette and the ones the app surfaces first for Warm Spring because they reflect the warmth in your skin straight back at it.

• Vivid Coral-Orange#FF6B35
• Golden Yellow#E8AA14
• Warm Turquoise#009DB5
• Warm Medium Green#2E8B57
• Deep Warm Coral#D94F30

• Vivid Coral-Orange #FF6B35: The Warm Spring colour: warm, clear and impossible for most other seasons.
• Golden Yellow #E8AA14: Your yellow at full strength; it looks expensive on you and sickly on almost everyone else.
• Warm Turquoise #009DB5: The blue-green that carries your warmth into the cool side of the wheel.
• Warm Medium Green #2E8B57: A leafy, clear green that reads as fresh rather than khaki on golden skin.
• Deep Warm Coral #D94F30: Your red: tomato-leaning and glowing, never blue or brick.

Four Warm Spring outfit formulas

Warm Spring, also called True Spring, is the purest warm season in the light half of the system. Everything in the palette has gold in it, which means the formulas that work are the ones where nothing cools the outfit down. No grey, no true white, no silver.

Read each one as base, main colour, accent. Once the base is warm, the rest becomes easy.

• The signature Ivory + Vivid Coral Orange + Warm Turquoise #F5EDDA #FF6B35 #009DB5

  Ivory base, coral-orange at the face, warm turquoise accent. The two brights are opposites on the wheel and both are warm, which is why they look energetic rather than loud.

• Gold daylight Camel + Golden Yellow + Warm Medium Green #C9A96E #E8AA14 #2E8B57

  Camel trousers, golden yellow knit, warm green accessories. A gold-on-gold outfit that stays interesting because the green cuts it.

• Smart and warm Oatmeal + Warm Teal + Warm Orange #E0D5BC #5BA0A0 #FF8C42

  Oatmeal shirt, warm teal jacket, orange detail. Teal is the colour to wear when the occasion wants navy, and it does far more for you.

• Weekend gold Warm Tan + Vivid Golden Yellow + Spring Green #A68A64 #FFD700 #3CB371

  Warm tan base, vivid golden yellow, spring green accent. Bright, unapologetic, and all three colours are in the palette above.

A six-piece Warm Spring capsule

Six garments, one colour each. Warm Spring capsules fail when one cool piece sneaks in, so the rule is simple: if a garment has grey or blue in its base, it does not go in.

Buy the camel trousers and the ivory shirt first. Together they take every bright in the palette without any of them clashing.

Warm Spring colours to avoid

Coldness and dullness are the problems. Black and stark white bookend the wardrobe for most people and both are wrong for you: black is cold and heavy, white is chalky. Blue-based colours such as cool magenta, steel blue and icy pink drain the gold from your face. Greyed, muted shades like dusty grey, mauve and sage flatten your natural clarity. Swap black for toffee or warm tan, white for ivory, and every cool colour for its warm cousin: turquoise instead of steel blue, coral instead of magenta.

• Black#000000
• Stark White#FFFFFF
• Cool Magenta#C71585
• Steel Blue#4682B4
• Dusty Grey#A9A9A9

Five shades that work against Warm Spring colouring

• Black: Cold and heavy against clear golden colouring; toffee and camel are your darks.
• Stark White: Chalky next to warm skin; ivory and butter cream are your whites.
• Cool Magenta: Blue-based and loud; it makes warm skin look sallow.
• Steel Blue: Cool and greyed, the opposite of your clear warmth.
• Dusty Grey: Muted and cold; there is no grey in the Warm Spring palette for a reason.

The four near misses

Warm Spring near misses are almost always a question of clarity. A warm colour that has been greyed down belongs to Soft Autumn, not to you.

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  Charcoal #36454F

  Sold as the everyday neutral that goes with everything. It is cool and heavy, and it takes all the light out of a warm, clear complexion. Wear Warm Tan #A68A64 instead.

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  Cool Lilac #D8BFD8

  Pastels feel spring-like by name. This one is cool and dusty, and against golden colouring it reads grey. Wear Warm Apricot #EFA94A instead.

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  Rust #B7410E

  Warm, deep and beautiful, and it belongs to Autumn. Next to Warm Spring's clarity it looks like the colour has dried out. Wear Deep Warm Coral #D94F30 instead.

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  Optic White #FFFFFF

  Pure white next to a golden complexion makes the skin look yellow. It is the single most common Warm Spring mistake, and the fix costs nothing. Wear Butter Cream #F2E8CF instead.

Metals and jewellery for Warm Spring

Gold, and you can wear it bright. Rich yellow gold, bright brass and a warm rose gold all suit a golden undertone; polished finishes suit Warm Spring better than antiqued ones because the palette is clear rather than muted. Silver and platinum read cold and can make skin look yellow rather than golden. Amber, coral and turquoise stones are natural partners.

Best metals: Rich yellow gold, bright brass, warm rose gold.

Sister seasons and neighbours

Warm Spring borders Warm Autumn and Light 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. Side-by-side comparisons: Warm Spring vs True Spring, Warm Spring vs Warm Autumn.

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