Warm · balanced value · clear
Warmth is the defining quality — neither especially light nor especially deep. Golden, clear colours read as yours.
Three, not thirty. A palette is a prediction about which tones lift your face, not a list of banned colours — and a long avoid-list is the fastest way to make a useful idea useless.
True Spring is the centre of the warm-and-clear family: warmth is the defining property, and neither lightness nor contrast is extreme enough to take over. Skin has a golden or peachy warmth, hair usually runs golden blonde to warm mid-brown, and the eyes are often clear green, warm blue or golden hazel. Colours that are both warm and clean read as belonging here.
True seasons are diagnosed by exclusion — you are one when no second axis dominates.
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Light Spring
Value. If pastels genuinely suit you rather than washing you out, you are lighter than True Spring.
True Autumn
Value and clarity. Same warmth; True Autumn is deeper and more muted, and gold-on-brown reads richer than gold-on-gold.
Warm and clean, at ordinary intensity.
Golden blonde through warm chestnut, with copper and honey highlights sitting naturally. Anything described as ash, platinum or cool brown works against the season.
Gold, in warm yellow. Copper and bronze also suit; silver reads cold against the skin.
True seasons are diagnosed by exclusion — you are one when no second axis dominates. Warm beats cool clearly: gold jewellery, cream over optic white, camel over grey. But neither light nor deep wins outright — very pale pastels wash you out and very dark shades weigh you down about equally. And clear beats muted: a clean turquoise looks better on you than a dusty sage.
Marigold, Golden yellow, Jade, Warm coral, Clear blue and similar tones, with warm ivory, camel, coffee as the neutrals that carry them.
Gold, in warm yellow. Copper and bronze also suit; silver reads cold against the skin.
Golden blonde through warm chestnut, with copper and honey highlights sitting naturally. Anything described as ash, platinum or cool brown works against the season.
Value. If pastels genuinely suit you rather than washing you out, you are lighter than True Spring.
Value and clarity. Same warmth; True Autumn is deeper and more muted, and gold-on-brown reads richer than gold-on-gold.
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