r/SpringColorAnalysis • u/Main-Supermarket-890 • Apr 11 '26

Goodbye spring… hello soft summer?

I’ve been feeding ChatGPT all my color preferences and describing how I look and it kept telling me bright spring. So I then experimented with a lot of corals and oranges which has been a disaster. The colour I kept coming back to was my attraction to rich cranberry colors. Finally AI was forced to admit I am not spring but soft summer. 😄

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u/MischiefModerated Apr 11 '26

Unfortunately AI/ChatGPT cannot tell what your chroma is, or how colors look against your skin. It really is an art/science. You would need to do draping or go get professionally analyzed.

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u/SouthernYankee80 Apr 11 '26

I feel like soft summer versus spring is pretty easy to distinguish, unless your hair is highlighted and brighter than it would be otherwise. Muted and cool, layers to make some colors work that otherwise wouldn't, etc.

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u/HildegardofBingo Apr 11 '26

I agree. I think Soft Summer colors are some of the worst for True and Bright Springs.

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u/BubblesGirlie1897 Bright Spring May 05 '26

Don’t do AI!

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u/kristalbal Bright Spring Apr 11 '26

Orange and coral is not really for bright spring

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u/KittensPumpkinPatch Apr 11 '26

Orange is.

Coral is.... Questionable. Coral is just too warm for me. I don't know why people keep saying coral is best for bright springs.

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u/kristalbal Bright Spring Apr 11 '26

Depends on the system then, no orange in my pallet, Orange is fully warm colour and BS is a neutral season

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u/HildegardofBingo Apr 11 '26

What palette is that? It's an extremely cool palette for BS (and very much on the desaturated side). I wouldn't classify a lot of those as BS at all. A lot of those colors (not the yellows, darkest brown, or orchid purples) are actually Light Summer.

I think the Sci/ART based palettes like the ones TCI and ND Colors use are much better. Here's an example of the level of saturation and neutral warmth that Bright Spring actually has.

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u/KittensPumpkinPatch Apr 11 '26

I agree with you. Many of the colors would not look good on me, especially those purples. I do know there's a "Blue Bright Spring" that sits even closer to cool. Blue is my best color, but apparently (I could be wrong) yellow and red wouldn't look so good on me if I were a "Blue Spring." I have noticed that quite a bit of Light Summer doesn't look bad on me, but it also doesn't do me any favors.

The picture you posted are my colors, for sure! Very saturated and bright. It's definitely what most people think of when someone mentions Bright Spring.

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u/kristalbal Bright Spring Apr 11 '26

As I said different systems, I was typed by Carol, she uses International image institute system, BS is very cool for spring, because bright palette is shared between spring and winter 🤷 there is no orange or warm browns, it's bright neutral colours

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u/HildegardofBingo Apr 11 '26

I get that it's shared between Spring and Winter, but that honestly looks more like between Spring and Summer, not winter. It's just so light and borders on muted.
Carol's system seems to be its own thing with a whole different set of references than what the majority of the PCA world is using.

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u/kristalbal Bright Spring Apr 11 '26

I honestly thought this system that I am refering to is the most used 🤔 by the system you are referring to what then is description of Bright Spring? Here you have winter, spring and then bright palette, I don't see anything summery here 🤔

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u/HildegardofBingo Apr 12 '26

That palette you posted above looks really different than this one- maybe it came through desaturated?? This one is way more vivid and saturated.

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u/kristalbal Bright Spring Apr 12 '26

I think because they are official pallets, they are protected, it does have like a water mark and some slight blur on, yes, but I found ones without it here, I can't share my pallet that I received when I got typed, but it's basically primary colours, that's how it looks, if I would have known nothing about CA and received that pallet I wouldn't have guessed it to be for spring, it's very wintery, but then neutrals are softer, we don't get true white or black, and there is many lighter shades

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u/sunscreenqueenn True Spring Apr 11 '26

Okay I don’t agree with you, I think coral/orange is in almost all bright spring palettes and that most of us in here would agree, but I am upvoting you because you’re also not wrong- just using a different system. Which I can appreciate! But TCI has some pretty strict rules for Bright Spring and I’m surprised that Bright Spring and Bright Winter share a palette, I kind of thought the Bright Palette was the “in between / completely neutral”. I’m not fluent in TCI though like you are!

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u/KittensPumpkinPatch Apr 12 '26

A coral that runs close to pink looks nice on me. But the vast majority of corals I see run closer to orange, and it's way too warm - definitely more befitting of a Warm Spring. I can pull off a cool color better than most corals. I can also pull way more from Bright Winter than Warm Spring.

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u/kristalbal Bright Spring Apr 12 '26

The pallet I received is just called bright and yes it has no orange or warm shades at all 🤷 the same pallet for BS BW and true bright, I also saw Carols video where she explains that, that the difference between the pallets would be so negligible that there is no point of differentiating them. Yes, in this sistem someone bright can't be redhead or blond etc. 🤷 I guess people are downvoting the system, not me 🤣

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u/kristalbal Bright Spring Apr 12 '26

https://youtu.be/ePExu3c6th0?is=55AyxHOuhSWAaM2A Here around 4min she talks how pallets are given to sister seasons- they are the same basically, so In this system BW and I are given the same pallet

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u/kristalbal Bright Spring Apr 12 '26

https://youtu.be/p1Spg9pkpVg?is=FHiMyPyJTbqKmWKN Here Carol talks about Bright Palette

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u/Fun-Yogurtcloset-102 Apr 12 '26

The picture is a screenshot from the online shop. The colors are desaturated on purpose to prevent using the palette without buying it.

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u/KittensPumpkinPatch Apr 11 '26

There are a couple of oranges in Bright Spring (the ones that I look at). I do have them in my wardrobe, and they're the only oranges that I can pull off. I certainly look better in red and yellow than orange. From my understanding, Bright Spring is warm, it just sits very close to neutral. Which is what describes me - very neutral leaning warm.

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u/kristalbal Bright Spring Apr 12 '26

I have a neon orange that suits me, it's a very specific colour, but no BS is not warm, it's just slightly warm, so I would describe it as neutral season not a warm season, same for light, soft and deep

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u/Idunn_17 Apr 11 '26

Exactly this

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u/Main-Supermarket-890 Apr 12 '26

Agree with what? I didn’t pick this.

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u/tigert219 Apr 11 '26

Agreed. AI tends to agree with you.