Each axis runs from about -1 to +1 and is scored separately. These are editorial centres for a repeatable comparison, and the hex values are screen references rather than measured standards. Scoring the four apart is what lets the tool tell you which single call was the shaky one, instead of handing you a season and no reasoning.
Warm Spring is the purest warm season in the spring family, scoring the maximum 1.00 on temperature. Colouring is golden throughout: warm skin, hair from golden blonde through copper to warm mid-brown, and eyes in green, warm hazel or golden brown. Where the light seasons are defined by lightness, this one is defined by warmth.
It shares its perfect warmth score with Warm Autumn, which is where most confusion arises. The separator is chroma. Warm Spring sits at 0.65, meaning clear and fresh. Warm Autumn sits at -0.70, meaning muted and earthy. Both are golden; only one is bright.
How to check whether this is your season
Confirm warmth first. Gold jewellery should look obviously better than silver, and cream should beat optical white next to your face without much argument.
Then test brightness. Hold a clear marigold or fresh coral against your face, then a muted rust or olive. Warm Spring lifts with the clear colour and can look slightly dulled by the earthy one.
Check depth is medium. At 0 this season is neither light nor deep. If very light colours wash you out, you are correctly placed rather than a Light Spring.
These are the actual palettes the colour tool works from, not a sample. Point at one to hold it. Twelve seasons rather than the old four, because four cannot separate someone light and cool from someone deep and cool.
The principle behind every suggestion below
Everything should read golden and fresh at once. Warmth without clarity turns earthy, and clarity without warmth turns cold.
Your colours
This palette lives in the range most people describe as sunny. The colours have yellow in them and they are not softened or greyed.
Worth reaching for
Marigold, golden yellow and warm amber
Fresh leaf green and lagoon teal
Coral and warm true red
Camel, warm beige and golden brown as neutrals
Works against it
Blue-based pinks and icy pastels
Black and pure cool grey
Dusty, greyed versions of your own colours
Pure optical white, which is too stark against golden skin
The quickest confirmation
Hold clear coral against your face, then dusty rose. If coral wakes the face up and dusty rose flattens it, you are in a clear warm season.
This tests warmth and chroma in one move, which are the two axes that place this season. It does not separate Warm Spring from Clear Spring, but it rules out every summer and autumn season quickly.
Where people go wrong
Being placed in autumn because of warmth
Warmth alone does not make a season autumn. Both families are warm. Chroma is the axis that separates them, and a Warm Spring in autumn colours looks tired rather than golden.
Wearing black at the neckline
At full warmth, black introduces a cool depth this colouring has nothing to answer with. Warm brown or deep teal does the same job without the clash.
Choosing beige that is actually cool
Much of what is sold as beige is grey-based. A warm beige has yellow in it. Held side by side the difference is obvious, and only one of them works here.
Common questions
Chroma alone. Both score 1.00 on temperature, so both are fully warm. Warm Spring sits at 0.65 chroma, meaning clear and fresh, and Warm Autumn at -0.70, meaning muted and earthy. Compare a clear marigold with a muted rust.
Warm pinks, yes: coral, salmon and peachy pinks all work. Blue-based pinks such as fuchsia and dusty rose fight the palette. The question is never the colour name, it is what base the colour is mixed on.
Camel, warm beige, golden brown and ivory. Black, charcoal and cool grey all work against the season. Navy is workable if it leans warm rather than icy.
Why undertone is considered alongside depth, chroma and contrast.
Last checked 2026-07-31
Not sure this is you?
The tool scores temperature, depth, contrast and chroma separately across all twelve seasons, then shows which of the four calls was closest to a boundary. That is the honest answer to why different sites give you different seasons.
