Spring color palettes
Six fresh schemes, five colors each, every hex a click away. Ordered dark to light.
Spring is the hardest of the four seasons to do without it turning saccharine. The reason is that the obvious moves (high-key pinks, yellow-greens, a lot of white) all push lightness up at once, and a palette where everything is light has no structure left. The ones below all keep at least one genuinely dark color, usually a leaf or moss green, so the pale blossom tones have something to sit against.
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New leaf
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Blossom
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Meadow
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Morning garden
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Peach and pear
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Wisteria
Yellow-green is the hue that decides whether a spring palette reads as fresh or as unwell. Anything between roughly #A8C000 and #C8D400 goes sickly on a screen very quickly, especially next to warm neutrals. Pull it toward blue: a #7BA05B rather than a #A8C000, and the whole scheme steadies. If you want the acid note, use it once, small, and never for a surface.
Other palettes.
Same format, different mood. Every hex on every one of them copies in a click.
- Fall color palettes Rust, ochre and oxblood, each row anchored by one genuinely dark brown.
- Winter color palettes Two families that behave nothing alike: quiet blue-grays, and forward jewel tones.
- Summer color palettes Sea blues, sun yellows and coral, with a deep blue doing the structural work.
- Pastel color palettes Soft schemes that each break the pastel rule once, because five pastels have no hierarchy.
- Neutral color palettes Warm and cool neutrals. Not gray: every color carries the same faint hue bias.
- Retro color palettes Four decades kept apart, because mixing them is what makes retro read as wrong.
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