#E0409A
Warm fuchsia
A Bright Spring color
anchor color 8 of 10 in Bright Spring. Also called Clear Spring in other systems.
By Kathleen Olsen · Updated November 11, 2026
Warm fuchsia is the Bright Spring pink at the cool end of the palette: a fuchsia with enough red in it to stay warm, worn by the one warm season that can carry a pink this loud. It is the color that proves Bright Spring is not only coral and yellow.
Warm fuchsia is an anchor color in Bright Spring. Nothing on the same side of the warm–cool line comes within twenty points of it; the nearest is Warm burgundy #6E2233 in Dark Autumn at 49. That makes it a clean test. If it suits you, you are in this palette.
At RGB 224, 64, 154 the red leads, the blue is well ahead of the green, and the green is low. The blue being ahead of the green is what makes it a fuchsia rather than a coral. The red leading by a wide margin is what keeps it warm enough for a Spring. Push the blue up and pull the red down and it becomes True Winter's hot pink; add grey and it becomes the soft fuchsia that belongs to True Summer.
A Bright Spring wears it as the loud color in an outfit of warm navy and bright white, or with camel for the version that looks expensive. It pairs with warm turquoise and golden yellow for the people who can carry two brights, and with bright coral for a tonal outfit of warm pinks. It should not be worn with black, which makes it look like a Winter color, or with cool grey, which makes it look purple.
Retailers call it fuchsia, hot pink, magenta, bright pink, raspberry or shocking pink, and the names are unreliable: most of what sells as fuchsia is the cool version. Hold the garment against a white. Warm fuchsia looks faintly red at the edges. A cool fuchsia looks faintly purple and belongs to a Winter. A dusty one looks grey and belongs to a Summer.
True Winter's hot pink is eight points away and cooler, and True Winter's fuchsia is eleven points off; on a Bright Spring both read a shade harsh, and on a True Winter warm fuchsia reads a shade orange. Bright Winter's hot pink is sixteen points off and cooler still. Bright Spring's own hot warm pink is eighteen points off and lighter, the pink to reach for when this one feels heavy. True Winter's magenta is twenty-four points off and deeper.
The nearest named colors in other seasons, by perceptual distance (ΔE in CIELAB; under 10 is hard to tell apart on a screen, over 25 is a different color).
Hot pink #E23B8A
True Winter anchor · ΔE 8
Fuchsia #D0247A
True Winter and Bright Winter anchor · ΔE 11
Hot pink #E4007C
Bright Winter anchor · ΔE 16
Magenta #C2185B
True Winter anchor · ΔE 24
Soft fuchsia #B85C86
True Summer anchor · ΔE 28
Cool raspberry #A63A5B
True Summer anchor · ΔE 31
As of November 11, 2026, nothing in stock samples close to #E0409A. The guide below has the nearest colors that do. The dot on each card is the color we sampled from the garment itself; trust it over the photograph. Links are affiliate links: we earn a commission when you buy through them, at no cost to you.
Yes. Warm fuchsia (#E0409A) is an anchor color in the Bright Spring palette. No other palette on the same side of the warm–cool line has a color near it, which makes it a reliable test for the season.
This one, yes. Warm fuchsia has enough red in it to stay warm, and it is the one pink this loud that a warm season can carry. The cool fuchsias of the Winters are eight to sixteen points away and read harsh on a Bright Spring. The test is a white sheet of paper: warm fuchsia shows a red edge, cool fuchsia shows a purple one.
Not quite. Hot pink as retail sells it is usually the True Winter or Bright Winter version, cooler by eight to sixteen points. Warm fuchsia sits between hot pink and coral, and on a Bright Spring it does the job hot pink does for a Bright Winter. If a hot pink looks faintly red against white rather than faintly purple, it is this one.
For a Bright Spring: warm navy, bright white, camel, warm turquoise, golden yellow and bright coral for a tonal look. Navy and white is the safe frame. Avoid black, which makes it read as a Winter color, and cool grey, which pulls it purple.
Not well. True Summer's soft fuchsia is muted and cooler, and warm fuchsia at full volume wears a True Summer rather than the other way around; the warmth also turns the skin ruddy. The Summer version does the same job at the right depth and temperature.
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