#F26B21
Clear orange
A Bright Spring color
anchor color 7 of 10 in Bright Spring. Also called Clear Spring in other systems.
By Kathleen Olsen · Updated November 11, 2026
Clear orange is orange at full strength with nothing muting it. It is anchor color seven in the Bright Spring palette and the color most other seasons cannot touch. Warm, bright, and loud, which is exactly the Bright Spring brief. If you can wear this near your face and look better for it, you are very probably a Bright Spring.
Clear orange is an anchor color in Bright Spring. The nearest color on the same side of the warm–cool line is Pumpkin #C4621A, a True Autumn color, at a distance of 18: close enough to mistake for it on a hanger, far enough to tell apart on a person.
Orange is the most temperature-specific color there is. It is warm by definition, so the cool seasons are out at once. Among the warm seasons, it then sorts by saturation. The Autumns wear it muted: pumpkin, burnt orange, terracotta. True Spring wears it as coral, which has red in it. Bright Spring is the only season that wears orange as orange, undiluted.
What makes it work on a Bright Spring is contrast. The season has clear, warm coloring with high contrast between skin, hair, and eyes, and a color this strong matches that contrast instead of swamping it. On a Light Spring the same orange is wearing the person. On a True Autumn it looks like plastic next to the season's softer, earthier version.
In practice the risk is buying a muted orange by mistake. Retail photography flattens saturation, so a pumpkin and a clear orange can look alike on a product page. The test is simple: a clear orange looks almost fluorescent in daylight. If the garment looks sensible in daylight, it is an Autumn orange.
True Autumn's pumpkin is the nearest named color at eighteen points, and the confusion is one of saturation rather than hue. Pumpkin is the same orange with a layer of brown over it. True Spring's coral is nineteen points away in the other direction, redder and softer. Both will look like the wrong garment on a Bright Spring, who needs the full-strength version.
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).
Pumpkin #C4621A
True Autumn anchor · ΔE 18
Coral #FF7855
True Spring anchor · ΔE 19
Warm tomato red #E8452E
True Spring anchor · ΔE 20
Rust #B7410E
True Autumn and Dark Autumn anchor · ΔE 20
Burnt sienna #C4532A
True Autumn anchor · ΔE 21
Terracotta #B8572A
True Autumn anchor · ΔE 26
As of November 11, 2026, nothing in stock samples close to #F26B21. 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. Clear orange (#F26B21) 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.
No. True Autumn is warm, so the temperature is right, but the season is muted and this orange is not. True Autumn's own pumpkin, eighteen points away, is the same hue with the brightness taken down. That is the one to buy.
Close. True Spring is warm and fairly bright, and its coral sits nineteen points from this. Clear orange on a True Spring reads a little harsh. Coral, with its red, is softer on the face and is the season's own version.
Red. Coral is orange with enough red added to read as a pink-orange. Clear orange has no pink in it at all. RGB 242, 107, 33 has very little blue and the red and green channels in roughly the proportion that makes a pure orange.
Bright Spring, and only Bright Spring comfortably. Clear Spring is the same season under a different name. Everyone else wears orange in a diluted form: the Autumns muted, True Spring as coral, and the cool seasons not at all.
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