Hot warm pink

Where it sits

Bright Spring palette

Hot warm pink 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 coral pink #F98A7E in True Spring at 33. That makes it a clean test. If it suits you, you are in this palette.

At RGB 240, 86, 140 the red is high, the green is low, and the blue sits at a little over half the red. Compare that to True Winter's hot pink, where the blue runs higher. Less blue is what makes this one warm. It leans toward coral rather than purple, and in warm light it stays pink where a cool pink would go violet.

A Bright Spring wears it as one strong color with the palette's neutrals: warm navy, camel, warm grey, white. A knit with navy trousers. A dress with camel shoes. A scarf against a white shirt. It also pairs with clear warm aqua and golden yellow, which the Winter pinks do not, because all three share the same warmth.

Retailers call it hot pink, fuchsia, bright pink, watermelon, raspberry, or just pink, and the names overlap badly. Most of what sells as hot pink is cooler than this. Hold the garment against an orange. Hot warm pink looks like a cousin of the orange. A cool hot pink looks purple by comparison.

Easily confused with

True Winter's hot pink is eleven points away and cooler. True Winter's fuchsia and magenta, and Bright Winter's hot pink, are fifteen to nineteen points off and all cool. Bright Spring's own warm fuchsia is eighteen points off and more purple. On a Bright Spring, the Winter pinks look slightly cold. On a True Winter, this one looks slightly orange. Both borrow across the gap and usually get away with it.

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).

In stock in this color today

As of November 11, 2026, 3 in-stock pieces across Frank & Eileen and Boden sample within a close match of #F0568C. 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.

Marta Merino Wool Crew Sweater

Pink Power

$180 at Boden

Megan

Raspberry

$328 at Frank & Eileen

Silvio

Magenta

$268 at Frank & Eileen

What it's sold as

Retailers almost never use the palette name. These are the color names on the in-stock pieces that sample within a close match of #F0568C today, so they are the words to search for.

Frank & Eileen

Raspberry, Magenta

Boden

Pink Power

A retailer's name for a color says nothing about its undertone. "Navy" at one shop is a True Winter color and at another a Spring one. The sampled dot on each card above is what we trust.

Questions

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