Bright Spring Color Palette

The Bright Spring greens are Lime Zest (#B5D334), Emerald Pop (#00A86B), Kiwi (#8DC63F) and True Turquoise (#12BBB4) — they carry the most pigment in a saturated palette, and they sit at the light end of the Bright Spring palette. All 4 are Bright Spring palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

The Bright Spring blues are Electric Aqua (#00B8C4), Cobalt Splash (#2A6FDB), Bright Teal (#0097A7) and Bright Navy (#1F3F78) — they run quieter than the Bright Spring average, and they sit at the deep end of the Bright Spring palette. All 4 are Bright Spring palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

The Bright Spring oranges & corals are Hot Coral (#FF5A4E), Tangerine (#FF8C42) and Poppy Orange (#F4581F) — they carry the most pigment in a saturated palette, and they sit right at the Bright Spring palette’s mid-depth. All 3 are Bright Spring palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

Yes — this page is the Bright Spring color chart. It carries 16 palette colors, 6 neutrals and 6 shades to avoid: 28 swatches in all, every one with its name and its hex code, and the palette is also grouped by hue family (greens, blues, oranges & corals and the neutrals) so you can pull one family out of the chart. The hex codes are rendered as text rather than baked into an image, so a screenshot keeps them readable and copy-paste still works.

Bright Spring is also sold as Clear Spring — the same season under a different system's naming. SciART-derived charts say “True”, “Bright” and “Deep” where older books say “Warm”, “Clear” and “Dark”. Whichever name you arrived with, the palette on this page is the one it points at. Style-essence labels like “ingenue” or “gamine” are a different system again — they type body and style rather than color, so they change how a garment is cut, not which colors suit you.

Black is not one of the Bright Spring colors. The deepest neutral in the Bright Spring set is Bright Navy (#1F3F78), and that is the anchor to reach for when an outfit wants a black — it holds the same weight without flattening Bright Spring coloring.

The 6 colors Bright Spring should avoid are Dusty Rose, Mushroom Taupe, Muted Olive, Stone Grey, Faded Denim and Cocoa Rose. Each one misses the palette on undertone, depth or clarity rather than on taste — the measured reason for each is on this page, with a palette swap for every one of them on the Bright Spring colors-to-avoid page.

Both, leaning gold. Bright Spring coloring is warm (golden/yellow-based), so either metal works — warm golds and antiqued brass are the safer default, and bright silver is best kept brushed rather than mirror-shiny.

Bright Spring hair follows the same undertone rule as the clothes: keep contrast crisp: rich warm brunette or vivid copper; avoid mousy in-betweens. The point is to keep hair, skin and palette on one temperature so nothing in the picture argues.

16 palette colors plus 6 neutrals, and Palettewell publishes every one with its hex code. Add the 6 shades to avoid and the Bright Spring page carries 28 named values in total.

Bright Spring is warm (golden/yellow-based). On the other two axes it is medium in depth and bright and highly saturated, and those two are what separate Bright Spring from the other Spring seasons.

Both are Spring seasons, so both share a warm base. They part on value (Bright Spring is medium, Light Spring is light) and chroma (Bright Spring is bright, Light Spring is medium). In practice that is Hot Coral, Lime Zest and Electric Aqua against Peach Blossom, Buttercream and Spring Aqua.