The Expanded Spring Colour Season Munsell Matrix

Based on existing color theories, we have developed the My True Style Colour Season System to include nuanced sub-season variations that cater to a much wider variety of people with their own unique colorings. By mapping the subtle differences between colourings, this system is designed to help you discover and celebrate your true colors.

Here is an expanded Spring Colour Season Matrix to better cater to your unique colourings. We have taken the traditional sub-seasons and expanded them into a highly detailed 12-variation matrix. We map out the transitions along the Munsell axes of Value (lightness) and Chroma (clarity/vibrancy), while maintaining Spring’s foundational warm undertone.

​The original core seasons are True Spring (Absolute Warmth), Light Spring (High Value), and Bright Spring (Maximum Chroma). The 9 additional variations act as intermediate steps, micro-climates, or crossover transition zones into sister seasons.

​The 12 Variations of Spring Broken Down

​1. Ethereal Spring (The Gossamer Pastel Focus)

​The absolute lightest, airiest stop in the warm paradigm. Flooded completely with creamy sunlight, it sits at the apex of the Value axis while dropping Chroma down to a whisper. These individuals look stunning in delicate, highly diluted colors like champagne, pale apricot fluff, and bleached warm mint.

​2. Light Spring (The Summer Transition Core)

​The classic delicate, airy Spring profile. Heavily influenced by Summer’s light value, these individuals look beautifully luminous in weightless, sun-bleached pastels, soft peach, apricot, and light chiffon yellow.

​3. Glacier Spring (The Piercing Light Focus)

​A high-contrast neon pastel zone sitting right on the high-clarity threshold where Spring meets Winter’s sharp edges. It captures the biting, blinding glare of early morning sun reflecting off snow. These individuals look exceptional in clear, crisp, frozen warm tones like electric primrose yellow and crystalline warm aqua.

​4. Camelia Spring (The Luminous Midpoint)

​Sitting right between Light Spring and True Spring, this variation graduates smoothly away from hyper-whitened pastels toward richer, uncompromised golden pigments. It maintains an airy feeling but introduces a stronger, vibrant, mid-light coloration like clear cream, daffodil yellow, and bright warm pink.

​5. True Spring (The Absolute Warm Core)

​The absolute heart of pure golden temperature. There is zero coolness, shadow, or gray dust in this profile. Their coloring is completely saturated with bright, joyful, sun-drenched warmth like true gold, marigold, and bright flamingo pink.

​6. Blossom Spring (The Vivid Canopy Focus)

​The absolute peak of Spring’s floral saturation. Sittiing as an intermediate step between True and Bright Spring, it focuses heavily on intense, warm cosmetic tones. It trades transparency for highly concentrated, juicy, flaming pinks, hot corals, and striking electric peach hues.

​7. Bright Spring (The Winter Transition Core)

​The classic high-chroma, high-contrast Spring palette. Influenced by Winter’s clarity, these individuals possess a sharp, glassy contrast in their features. They can easily handle electric coral, neon lime, and hot turquoise anchored by crisp, clean navy or charcoal.

​8. Nectar Spring (The Warm Edge of Softness)

​A juicy yet slightly relaxed warm midpoint bridging True Spring and Soft Spring. It represents the space where Spring’s high clarity begins to gently wind down, channeling the natural, un-grayed sweetness of liquid honey and ripe golden apricot flesh.

​9. Soft Spring (The Autumn Transition Core)

​Spring touched by Autumn’s gentle haze. While lower in chroma for a Spring, its base is mixed with warm sand and gold rather than flat gray. Warm tones are uniquely tempered and smoothed out into toasted butter, peach sand, and olive moss.

​10. Sahara Spring (The Desert Interior Focus)

​A beautiful crossover zone exploring the deeper, sun-baked interior where Spring runs directly into Autumn. While keeping Spring’s warm current alive rather than adopting Soft Autumn’s cool, stony fog, these individuals carry rich raw terracotta, deep camel, and heavy turquoise stone with ease.

​11. Sunlit Spring (The Deep Golden Variant)

​A deep, heavily amber-soaked sunset profile leaning closely to Warm Autumn. Rather than turning heavy, dense, or opaque, the palette keeps its colors highly reflective and translucent—retaining Spring’s signature vitality and radiance like fire glowing through stained glass.

​12. Deep Spring (The Transition Dark Focus)

​The deepest, shadow-laden stop before total Autumn darkness. Heavily influenced by the deep contrast of the dark seasons, this profile bypasses Winter’s icy coolness by anchoring its deep values in a highly active warm baseline, thriving in rich mahogany woods, deep amber resins, and heavy warm moss greens..

Spring Celebrities Mapped to the 12-Matrix

• Amanda Seyfried – Ethereal Spring The absolute ultimate example of the gossamer spring look. She possesses a whisper-soft, delicate translucency that is completely overwhelmed by heavy colors, but radiates beautifully in highly diluted cream-lilac, chiffon, and pale champagne.
• Margot Robbie – Light Spring The classic core face of Light Spring. Her features thrive natively on light-value, sun-bleached pastels, soft peaches, and clear aquas, maintaining a bright but distinctly airy luminosity.
• Gigi Hadid – Camelia Spring Sits perfectly in the richer midpoint between light pastels and intense true golds. She has a touch more natural pigment depth than a traditional Light Spring, making clear daffodil yellow and sunny periwinkle her absolute best lane.
• Lindsay Lohan – True Spring The textbook definition of absolute warm temperature. With her natural fiery copper hair, golden-warm skin, and clear eyes, she possesses zero cool or gray undertones—thriving effortlessly in vibrant marigold and bright orchid pinks.
• Isla Fisher – Blossom Spring The ultimate representative of Spring’s highly saturated floral peak. Her coloring is dense, vital, and intensely clear, demanding maximum juice and vibrancy—especially via highly concentrated corals and flaming pinks.
• Emma Stone – Bright Spring The definitive face of the Winter-transition core. She possesses a striking, glassy contrast that handles blinding clarity with absolute ease. She easily commands electric coral, neon lime, and hot turquoise without ever being washed out.
• Beyoncé – Sahara Spring A brilliant example of the sun-baked, desert interior of Spring. Her natural skin tone holds a rich, radiant golden current that allows her to transition flawlessly into deep, glowing earth tones like raw terracotta and rich camel without ever slipping into Autumn muteness.
• Tyra Banks – Sunlit Spring The perfect showcase for deep, amber-soaked transition warmth. Her features demand a highly reflective, translucent depth—looking spectacular in intense sunset oranges, metallic golds, and radiant, deep warm wine-purples.
• Julia Roberts – Deep Spring The ideal anchor for the deepest, darkest boundary of the warm spectrum. She is heavily grounded by deep mahogany and dark wood richness, yet her overall profile is saved from Autumn darkness by a highly active, unmistakable warm golden current.