Light Spring Colour Palette: Your Style Guide

If Light Spring is your colour season, your palette offers plenty of light, fresh shades to explore. Think soft peach, warm pink, light aqua and gentle greens, with cream and warm beige to bring everything together.

Perhaps you’re excited to try your colours, or maybe you’re wondering how they’ll fit into a wardrobe that already has plenty of black, denim and neutrals. Either way, there’s no need to start from scratch. Your palette can help you find new ways to wear colours you already enjoy, as well as introduce a few fresh options.

The key is to look for shades that feel light and warm, rather than very deep or heavily muted. You can build from there at a pace that suits you.

Light Spring is one of the 12 seasons in seasonal colour analysis. Each season describes a group of colours with shared qualities, helping people explore shades that may complement their natural colouring.

For Light Spring, lightness comes first, with a warm quality. Colours tend to have a fresh, airy feel rather than a deep or heavy appearance. They often lean towards peach, golden or yellow-based tones instead of cool, blue-based shades.

Think of soft peach, pale warm pink, light aqua and fresh green. These colours can feel gentle without being dull, and bright without being intense. The palette sits close to Light Summer in its emphasis on lighter shades, but Light Spring leans warmer while Light Summer leans cooler.

Light doesn’t mean you need to wear pastel colours from head to toe. You can combine lighter shades with denim, warm neutrals or a slightly deeper accent to create definition.

Your colour season is there to give you ideas, not to limit your choices. If you love a deeper colour, keep wearing it and explore how it works with the rest of your outfit.

Begin with a light colour you already love. Try it with a neutral from your wardrobe and see which combinations you enjoy wearing.