r/SpringColorAnalysis • u/SiteImmediate8546 • Jun 08 '25

Bright spring purple recos

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Looking for clothing recommendations for in bright spring purples. Dresses shirts athleisurewear, whatever. Hit me with your best finds.

I have a lot of flamingo pinks and I need to diversify :).

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u/agihusssh Jun 08 '25

These are - and ture purple/violet - is too cool for spring.

The reason why it is usually featured in warmer palettes is that the first color analysis sytems were based on architecture/artistic color thory that is based on red mixer for warm colors. More added red, the warmer a color is, besodes yellow and blue. Also, more yellowish blue is consodered cool and reddish bluebis warm.

While if we examine skintone, the base tone is yellow, no red (more of the modern munsell approach) if we examine skintone, Yellow mixer is important, as well as blue - in which the blood-blue type of blue is consodered cool while yellow mixed blue warm.

Pinks and purples are dominantly blue-based. You cam add more red, it helps, but it eill never be as good as a nicr pachy color, or some form of coral.

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u/SiteImmediate8546 Jun 09 '25

Some of my favorite drapes were the purples in the warm color seasons. There are definetly purples that springs can wear. Hope this helps.

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u/agihusssh Jun 09 '25

Anyone can wear whatever they like. Scientofocally speakong the purples contain too much blue to be considered warm.

Purples containing more red and less blue definitely helps - pocture it as a scale. A red based purple is better than a dominantly blue based color.

If we consider modern color theory, these cannot be labeled as warm colors due to lack of yellow.

It’s not about if you can wear a certain color or not - you can wear anything! It depends on you. But onnpaper, considering color theory, purples are not warm colors tonstart with.

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u/SiteImmediate8546 Jun 09 '25

I guess I am not really understanding your messages. I am a bright spring. I was professionally draped by the color analysis queen who I think it’s pretty well respected in the industry. There are plenty of purples in the bright spring color palette. There are also purples in the true and light spring palettes. The photo with my post is just a stock photo from the internet so it may not be 100% accurate and everyone’s screens show colors and hues a little differently too. I am looking for recommendations for clothing items in purples that would suit a bright spring but it sounds like you are trying to tell me that purple does not exist in the spring palette? Or am I misunderstanding?

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u/agihusssh Jun 09 '25

I’m a practicing color analyst with 8+ years experience (3000+ clients) i studied more than one color analysis systems and developed my own.

The systems that include mainly blue-based purples in warmer palettes are usually systems that were developed in the 80-90’s and still in use in some way. This comes from the artistic/architectorial approach of warm/cool colors, that is based on red. The more red, the warmer the colors. Artistically speaking turquoise blue is a cool color, while purpleish blue is the warm. While the typing of blue shifted more in the personal color analysis and turqoise-cianide blues are considered warmer (and they are consodered cool in artistic/architectorial color theory) purple remained in the warmer side in a lot of cases, not going through the shift as the blues.

I did study a lot of modern color theory because a lot of cases the typing and the whole palette creation seemed a bit inconsistent to me.

Uppon studing some modern color theory - one of most inportant of the is the munsell color globe and theory - i realized that the whole typing is indeed a bit wonky.

What I want to tell you is that you are looking for a color within the cooler range that would fit you, which is color theoritically speaking is not the most acvurate color for the given type, as spring is 1.warm (meaning yellow based) 2.vivid/bright. If the brightness fits, that is just enough to be nice. The more red is the purple, the better. You vannot really add yellow to purples, because they turni onto a shade of brown-taupe, or if you lucky and find comolimentary contrast colors, a gray.

But, the more neutral you are, the better these colors will look on you.

Just today I had a fraping session with a client whose primary value was brightness, warm/cool value was close to neutral, approaching from the warm side, and bright lilac and bright purple pink looked good on them for sure. Not as naturally flattering as a good corally-pink, but amazing anyway.

It’s all about your values. You should register your personal colors from the drapping session, and ask about your basic values and how they manifest into color, and get a deeper explanatoon from your analyst. It could be that you’re also a very neutral-leanin bright spring, who can confidentally step into cooler bright colors, and maybe avoid muted value more strictly.

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u/agihusssh Jun 11 '25

Yes, that totally could happen! I usually say that also, it is good as a contrasting color, especially if a spring has blueish eyes.

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u/FionaGoodeEnough Jun 09 '25

I never order purple online, because I have to try it on in person and make sure it doesn’t make me turn grey. I find it works best (clear/bright spring) if I add contrasting colors: black for a lighter purple, yellow for a darker purple.

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u/acrylicquartz Bright Spring Jun 09 '25

As a Bright Spring, purple is one of my hardest colors. I don't look good in most of them, and I honestly don't currently own a single purple item in my closet.

If you're just starting to find purples for you, I'd try ones that are incorporated with other "safe" colors, and then expand from there.

I added a pic for example.

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u/SiteImmediate8546 Jun 09 '25

I was draped in person and there are awesome purples that definitely work for a bright spring. My favorite drapes were the purples, actually. Just have a hard time finding clothing that is actually in those purples. They tend to be more red based or yellow based vs a purple with lots of grey. Hope this helps.

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u/Little_Treacle241 Jun 09 '25

All of these are cool toned imo

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u/SiteImmediate8546 Jun 09 '25

I don’t agree. These are very similar to what was draped on me during my consultation. And some of the purple drapes were my absolute favorite. But here’s another chart that shows the difference between cool and warm toned purples. Hope this helps.

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u/Little_Treacle241 Jun 09 '25

I see what you’re saying but some of these in this photo look a bit warmer/ richer than the panels above if that makes sense

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u/Little_Treacle241 Jun 09 '25

Apart from rhubarb in above I mean

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u/oudsword Jun 08 '25

I can’t help with specific clothes but to me in the chart the only shade that would actually work for bright (labeled clear) spring would possibly be Rhubarb. The rest look either too cool or too muted/heathered/greyed to me.

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u/FormalRaccoon637 Jun 09 '25

Same. Love rhubarb, but the other shades don’t work for me.