True Spring Color Palette

The True Spring yellows & golds are Marigold (#F5C95A), Chartreuse Bud (#E8D24B), Golden Apricot (#F0A040) and Daffodil (#FFD44F) — they carry the most pigment in a clear palette, and they sit at the light end of the True Spring palette. All 4 are True Spring palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

The True Spring greens are Leaf Green (#8FC36B), Jade Pool (#5BC2A8), Kelly Green (#3FA45B) and Turquoise (#2FB5B0) — clear and warm-leaning, in step with the rest of the palette, and they sit right at the True Spring palette’s mid-depth. All 4 are True Spring palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

The True Spring oranges & corals are Coral Rose (#F2706A), Warm Peach (#F4A26B) and Terracotta Sun (#C9602F) — they carry the most pigment in a clear palette, and they sit right at the True Spring palette’s mid-depth. All 3 are True Spring palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

Yes — this page is the True 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 (yellows & golds, greens, 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.

True Spring is also sold as Warm 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.

No — Jet Black (#141414) is on the True Spring 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 True Spring set is Bright Navy (#274B77), and that is the anchor to reach for instead.

The 6 colors True Spring should avoid are Jet Black, Dusty Mauve, Icy Grey, Wine, Cool Fuchsia and Slate Navy. 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 True Spring colors-to-avoid page.

Gold. True Spring coloring is warm (golden/yellow-based), so a warm metal picks up the same base the palette runs on; silver sits cold and flat against it.

True Spring hair follows the same undertone rule as the clothes: golden — honey, copper-kissed caramel, warm chestnut; skip ash tones and blue-black. 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 True Spring page carries 28 named values in total.

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

Both are Spring seasons, so both share a warm base. They part on value (True Spring is medium, Light Spring is light) and chroma (True Spring is clear, Light Spring is medium). In practice that is Coral Rose, Marigold and Leaf Green against Peach Blossom, Buttercream and Spring Aqua.