Light Summer Color Palette

The Light Summer blues are Powder Blue (#A7C7E7), Dusty Aqua (#8FC6CE), Soft Sky (#B9D6EE), Light Denim (#7FA6CC) and Grey Blue (#8FA3B8) — moderately clear and cool-leaning, in step with the rest of the palette, and they sit right at the Light Summer palette’s mid-depth. All 5 are Light Summer palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

The Light Summer pinks are Ballet Rose (#F3B8C8), Rose Quartz (#E8A9BD), Petal Pink (#F5CCD9) and Watery Rose (#DE8FA8) — they carry the most pigment in a moderately clear palette, and they sit right at the Light Summer palette’s mid-depth. All 4 are Light Summer palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

The Light Summer purples & mauves are Lavender Mist (#C5B8E0), Wisteria (#A99BD1), Heather (#B790B8) and Cloud Lilac (#D4C6E8) — they carry the most pigment in a moderately clear palette, and they sit right at the Light Summer palette’s mid-depth. All 4 are Light Summer palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

Yes — this page is the Light Summer 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 (blues, pinks, purples & mauves 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.

Light Summer is also sold as Light Cool Summer and Summer-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”, and the 12-blueprint and flow systems name a blended season after the two it sits between, which is where Summer-Spring comes from. 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.

No — Jet Black (#141414) is on the Light Summer avoid list. It sits outside the palette on depth and undertone both, so it drops a hard line under the face. The deepest neutral in the Light Summer set is Grey Blue (#8FA3B8), and that is the anchor to reach for instead.

The 6 colors Light Summer should avoid are Jet Black, Pumpkin, Mustard, Tomato Red, Olive Drab and Espresso. 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 Light Summer colors-to-avoid page.

Silver. Light Summer coloring is cool (pink/blue-based), so a cool metal matches the palette's base; gold pulls yellow into the skin and fights it.

Light Summer hair follows the same undertone rule as the clothes: cool and light: ash blonde, beige blonde, light ash brown — golden warmth fights you. 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 Light Summer page carries 28 named values in total.

Light Summer is cool (pink/blue-based). On the other two axes it is light in depth and moderately clear, and those two are what separate Light Summer from the other Summer seasons.

Both are Summer seasons, so both share a cool base. They part on value (Light Summer is light, True Summer is medium). In practice that is Powder Blue, Ballet Rose and Sea Glass against French Blue, Raspberry Ice and Cool Jade.