Colour analysis
Light Spring or Light Summer?
This is your palette
The difference is temperature: one palette is warm, the other cool. Depth and clarity are the same.
How to tell them apart
- Look at the veins on the inside of your wrist in daylight: green-leaning veins point warm, blue or purple ones point cool.
- Hold gold and then silver jewellery against your skin: whichever makes it look even and clear, rather than sallow or grey, is your side.
- Compare a warm ivory with an optic white under your chin: warm colourings come alive in ivory, cool ones in the cleaner white.
Side by side
Light Spring
warm, light and muted
Warm, light and gently muted. Spring is defined by clarity, so nothing here is dusty – it is Light Spring with the volume down, not Soft Autumn.
- Peach Bloom
- Warm Apricot
- Fresh Leaf
- Spring Turquoise
- Cornflower PeriwinkleYour blue. Warm-leaning, never inky.
- Sweet VioletLight Spring can wear violet; it just has to stay light.
- Best whiteWarm IvoryBest white for you. Optic white looks blue against this skin.
- Best darkCocoa BarkUse instead of black. This is your dark neutral.
Light Summer
cool, light and muted
Cool, light and soft. Low contrast throughout – the palette works by staying close together, not by opposing itself.
- Soft Powder Blue
- Periwinkle
- Cool Lilac
- Rose Petal
- Soft LemonSummer does have a yellow. It is this one, and only this one.
- Sea Green Soft
- Best whiteSoft WhiteBest white for you. Soft white, not optic white.
- Best darkCharcoal SlateUse instead of black. Your best dark neutral.
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How to find your palette
Colour analysis reads three things in your colouring: warm or cool, light or deep, clear or soft. The quiz asks about your eyes, hair and skin, looked at in a mirror by a window in daylight. It never photographs or scans your face, and the palette it finds is yours to keep.