Colour analysis
Light Spring or True Spring?
This is your palette
The difference is clarity: one palette is clear and bright, the other soft and muted. Temperature and depth are the same.
How to tell them apart
- Hold a clear, saturated colour and its dusty version under your face, one after the other: if you belong to the clear palette, the clear one makes your eyes look brighter.
- Notice how much contrast there is between your hair, skin and eyes: strong contrast carries clear colour, low contrast suits soft colour.
- If people comment on a bright colour rather than on you when you wear it, the softer palette is likely yours.
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.
True Spring
warm, light and clear
Warm, clear and golden. Everything is lit from inside; nothing is greyed.
- Golden Poppy
- True Marigold
- Grass Green
- Clear Turquoise
- Warm CornflowerYour blue. Warm-based, so it sits beside gold.
- Spring AmethystViolet with warmth in it – not the cold plum of Winter.
- Best whiteIvory SilkBest white for you. Warm and soft, never chalky.
- Best darkEspresso BeanUse instead of black. Your best dark.
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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.