If your seasonal color palette is bright spring, this is the guide for you. The bright spring wardrobe has colors in the warm family to enhance your warm undertone. You may also borrow some cool colors due to your “neutral warm undertones”.
Once you have an understanding of your seasonal color, you’ll be able to use color combinations that flatter your complexion. Here is the complete bright spring color palette guide.
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Bright Spring Characteristics
Before we get into your color palette and wardrobe tips, you’ll need to understand your facial characteristics and “seasonal skin color”. If you are a bright spring, you have a “warm” undertone and look better in yellow-colored based clothing. As a bright spring, you also have a neutral undertone, which means you may share some “cool” characteristics.
The “bright” means you appear radiant and luminous. Your eyes pop and there is a high contrast in your facial features and hair. Other words used to describe bright springs are “clear”, high intensity, or “high chroma” which we will get into later. Here is a list breaking down the bright spring facial features:
1. Eyes
Bright springs have luminous eyes that are in high contrast to their face. It’s usually the first thing you’ll notice when looking at someone who is a bright spring. There is a high contrast between the color of the pupil and the whites of the eyes. If you are a bright spring, your eyes will “pop”.
2. Skin tone
Bright springs can have a range of fair to deep skin tones. What distinguishes the spring seasonal color is the “warm” or yellow undertones as opposed to a “cool” or blue-based undertone (such as those with winter or summer color palettes).
Bright springs’ skin tone may have a more “neutral” undertone and can borrow from some of the cool colors unlike “true” spring or “warm” spring. This is due to the “clearness” of their complexion and undertone.
3. Hair Color
The hair color of bright springs can vary from medium golden blond to dark brown. Natural highlights tend to be warm which will make the eyes look even brighter.
4. High Contrast
The main difference between a bright spring vs a true or warm spring is the high contrast in their facial features. The eyes, skin color, and hair color of a bright spring are all in high contrast to each other and clearly defined, hence the term “clear”.
Warm springs, on the other hand, tend to be muted and facial features tend to blend. A pure spring’s facial features will be softer and more “gentle” than a bright spring.
What Colors Look Best On Bright Springs?
Use this bright spring color palette to create color combinations to improve your wardrobe.
- The colors in the bright spring color palette are clear or bright in intensity.
- The value of color can be light to deep. The depth of color should be chosen based on hair color.
- Since bright springs are also “neutral” in undertone they may wear almost any color from the cool (blue) and warm (yellow) family.
- Bright spring may wear bright jewel tones as well as olive green.
The only exception is red. Bright springs need to stick to yellow-based reds such as rust and coral. This is the distinction between bright winters and bright springs.
What is important to pay attention to when choosing your bright spring color palette if you are a bright spring is the chroma or intensity of the colors.
Bright Spring Color Combinations
Since bright spring have high contrast in the facial features, using high contrasting complementary colors highlights your natural contrast, which is very flattering.
The bright spring color palette should incorporate highly contrasting florals and patterns which will enhance their vividness. Bright spring patterns are your friend!
Pro Wardrobe Tip: Use a color wheel to find complementary colors in the spring color palette.
I also recommend using an online color analysis tool to find your skin color palette. I love this one by Colorwise.me:
What Colors Should Bright Springs Avoid?
Bright springs should not wear colors that are too dark. For example, a soft black and medium navy is best. Avoid wearing fabrics that will make black look too dark.
Bright springs can wear some neutrals but it should be mixed with brights. Bright spring neutrals should be yellow-based mixed with other bright spring colors. An all-neutral look can make bright springs look dull and flat.
Chroma and Bright Spring Color Palette
“Chroma” refers to the intensity of a color. Since bright springs have high contrast, high-intensity colors will elevate and highlight your natural features.
Muted colors, on the other hand, will make a bright spring look “washed out”. Here are some terms to look for when choosing colors for the bright spring color palette:
General Spring Color Palette
The difference between the bright spring color palette and summer palettes is the intensity and brightness or vividness of the colors.
As you can see, there are some “blue-based” blues and greens that are also in the cool winter and summer color palette.
Note the reds are all “yellow’ or warm-based which do not appear on the cool color palette.
Winter vs. Spring Color Palette
As you can see from the two color palettes, winter has all blue-based colors that are deeper and richer. Most spring colors are yellow-based except the blues and greens.
Bright Winter vs. Bright Spring
Above are both the bright winter color palette and the bright spring color palette. Do you see the difference in value and temperature?
Let’s compare bright winter with bright spring. In bright winter, the colors are all cool or “blue” based. They are also deeper.
The colors in the bright spring palette are bright but lighter and have more yellow-based colors.
Both color palates share some blue-based blues and greens due to bright springs leaning slightly towards a neutral undertone.
Bright Spring Temperature and Color Analysis
Temperature
The “temperature” in color theory refers to whether a color is “cool” or “warm”. Cool colors have a “blue” cast while “warm” colors have a “yellow” cast. Bright spring falls in the warm to neutral category.
When it comes to color analysis in the world of Image Consulting, identifying your skin color palette is the first step in helping you dress to look your best. You may be cool or warm depending on your skin’s “undertone”.
This distinction ultimately determines your color palette. Winter and Summer are “cool” while Springs and Autumn are “warm”.
Value
The value of a color refers to how light or dark it is. Bright springs lean more towards light so they should wear medium to medium-value colors (not too light or too dark).
As I shared earlier, bright springs need to pay the most attention to chroma or the intensity of color as well as their temperature (yellow to neutral).
The bright spring color palette should have bright, vivid yellow-based colors with some cool blues and greens from the cool color palette.
Bright Spring and Jewelry
If you are a bright spring, you may wear either gold or silver jewelry due to your neutral undertone. Even rose gold will be flattering. Your warm undertone will pick up the golden warmth in yellow gold and enhance your complexion and eyes.
While your neutral undertone will pick up the cool blue in silver and enhance your features as well. Bright spring has the best of both worlds!
Bright Spring Celebrities
Here are some bright spring celebrities. Can you see all the bright spring characteristics we discussed above?
Notice what they all have in common. They seem to have a “yellowish” cast. Their eyes are bright and intense. There is a high contrast in their facial features and hair compared to their skin tone. They seem luminous and “bright”. They almost seem “shiny”.
Bright Spring and the Rainbow
I love thinking of the bright spring color palette as a bright rainbow. If you are a bright spring, vibrant colors should be in your wardrobe color palette.
As long as you follow the temperature, value, and chroma guidelines for bright spring, you’ll be able to highlight your natural brightness.
Your bright spring wardrobe should have the colors of the rainbow, with yellow undertones and some cool blues and greens. Your neutral undertone can be enhanced with both silver and gold-tone jewelry. Use this guide to let your natural beauty “shine”.
