True Spring vs Bright Spring

How to tell which one you actually are.

The short answer. Warm but louder and higher in contrast than you. A Bright Spring wants poppy red and hot coral at maximum saturation and a real light-dark gap in every outfit; a True Spring looks slightly overwhelmed by both. If the loudest version of a color always wins on you, look here.

True Spring

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Bright Spring

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What separates them, from each side

Each guide describes the other from its own point of view, and the two tests are different. This is the only page that carries both.

Read from True Spring

Warm but louder and higher in contrast than you. A Bright Spring wants poppy red and hot coral at maximum saturation and a real light-dark gap in every outfit; a True Spring looks slightly overwhelmed by both. If the loudest version of a color always wins on you, look here.

Read from Bright Spring

Warm and clear, but a step softer and lower in contrast than you. A True Spring looks best in coral and grass green at their natural strength and slightly overwhelmed by the same colors at maximum volume. If the loudest version always wins on you, stay here; if it looks like slightly too much, look next door.

Check it on yourself

The self-check from the True Spring guide

Do these in daylight, with a bare face if you can.

Wear a clear coral as a whole top. If it looks like you, you are a True Spring. If it looks too much, try Light Spring; if you want it louder, try Bright Spring.
Hold ivory and optic white against your jaw. If ivory is clean and optic white looks blue, you are on the warm side.
Hold camel and black. If camel looks complete and black looks harsh, stay in the spring family.

The self-check from the Bright Spring guide

Do these in daylight, without foundation if you can.

Hold golden yellow and icy lemon against your face. If gold makes you look sunlit and lemon makes you look pale, you are a spring.
Hold hot coral and hot pink. The one that makes your eyes brighter is your side of the line.
Wear bright navy with ivory and a poppy red. If the high contrast looks sharp, stay here; if it looks like too much, try True Spring.

Still not sure?

The Style-LORE quiz works it out from a photo taken in daylight and shows you the reasoning rather than just the label — then checks anything in your closet, or anything you are about to buy, against the answer. Free, and no account needed to start.

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The full guides

True Spring — the complete guide
Bright Spring — the complete guide

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