Bright Spring.

Character of the Bright Spring palette

Bright Spring sits at the Spring–Winter flow border, and it reads that way: the underlying warmth of Spring is intact, but the chroma has been pushed to the upper edge of the grid. On a person, this usually shows up as visibly high-contrast features — warm-medium skin against bright blue-green or clear amber eyes, hair in a saturated brown or warm red that has real color rather than muted mouseiness. The palette that frames this coloring is tropical afternoon: colors that feel like they have been through a polarizing filter, everything cranked one stop saturated but never tipping into cool. Bright Spring is the loudest of the three Spring sub-seasons, and it needs the volume to work — muted palettes that flatter Soft Summer or Soft Autumn land like a damp towel on Bright Spring. At the other extreme, Bright Spring shares the saturation level of Bright Winter, and the two are routinely confused. The tell is the pink: Bright Spring pinks carry coral inside them, Bright Winter pinks carry fuchsia. A Bright Spring in Bright Winter's palette looks slightly off; a Bright Winter in Bright Spring's palette looks slightly warm-yellow. Worn well, Bright Spring has a pop quality — the face suddenly reads much clearer, as if someone adjusted the contrast slider.