Color seasons / Spring

True Spring

Golden, lively and sun-warmed: you shine in colors that look freshly picked.

Dominant: Warm first, then clear

True Spring is the warmest of the Spring seasons. Its colors are yellow-based all the way through, with a fresh clarity that keeps them from feeling earthy. Imagine a market stall in early summer: tangerines, marigolds, poppies, ripe limes and a bright warm turquoise sea behind them. Your palette is cheerful without being shrill, and it holds more saturation than Light Spring while staying lighter than the Autumns.

When you wear these colors, warmth seems to rise to the surface of your skin. Your face looks rested, your eyes look clear and lively, and any natural golden tones in your hair or skin come forward. Cool, blue-based colors such as icy pink or fuchsia tend to sit apart from you, as if they were lit by a different light source than your face.

True Spring sits between Light Spring and Bright Spring, and it shares warmth with True Autumn. Its signature is warmth that stays clear. Where Autumn warmth is spiced and softened, yours is sunny and fresh. People with every depth of skin, from very fair to very deep, can be True Springs; what they share is the way golden, clear color lights them up.

Signs you might be True Spring

• Yellow-based colors such as marigold, tangerine and warm coral make your skin look clear and glowing, while blue-based pinks and burgundies seem to separate from your face.
• Gold jewelry looks like it belongs to you; silver can look a little grey or flat by comparison.
• Clear warm colors outperform their muted versions on you: tomato red beats brick, lagoon turquoise beats dusty teal.
• A cream or warm ivory top looks fresher on you than optical white, and camel looks better than grey.
• Your eyes often have golden, green or warm flecks, and they come forward when you wear warm greens or turquoise.
• Hair, skin and eyes tend to read as medium in contrast, with an overall impression of warmth and liveliness rather than depth or softness.

A taste of the palette

Your free result includes your full 16 colors and 6 neutrals. Pro adds a deeper 60-color palette, metals, makeup and hair direction.

How to tell it from the seasons next door

Light Spring: Light Spring needs colors lifted toward pastel, while True Spring carries full-strength tangerine and marigold easily. If saturated warm colors feel energizing rather than overwhelming, you lean True Spring.

Bright Spring: Bright Spring adds high clarity and a little coolness, wearing electric shades like hot coral and bright royal blue. True Spring is happiest with golden warmth over intensity; very electric colors can feel like they are shouting next to you.

People often cited as True Spring

Amy Adams, Emma Stone, Isla Fisher, Beyonce, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman. Commonly used examples; not analyzed by Hue & Line.

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