Peach

Where it sits

True Spring palette

Peach is an anchor color in True Spring. Its closest relative outside the palette is Peach #FBB58A, a Light Spring color, at a perceptual distance of 4. That is near enough for that season to wear it as a neutral, with the accents kept in its own palette.

At RGB 251, 176, 128 the red is at the top, the green sits at about seventy percent, and the blue at half. That spread is what makes it orange rather than pink. Pink would have the blue closer to the green. The high lightness is what makes it peach rather than coral. Take a third of the light out and it is warm coral. Take two thirds and it is terracotta.

A True Spring wears it near the face, which is where it does the most work. A shirt, a knit, a scarf. It pairs with golden brown, warm beige, camel, and warm navy, and it is one of the few soft colors that holds up next to grass green and warm turquoise. It is a good color for the piece that sits under a jacket.

Retailers call it peach, apricot, salmon, blush, nude, or light coral, and the names overlap badly. Most of what sells as blush is cooler than this. Most of what sells as coral is darker. Hold the garment against a pink. Peach looks orange by comparison. A warm blush looks like a lighter pink.

Easily confused with

Light Spring's peach is four points away, the same color in practice, and Light Spring's apricot and clear salmon are ten and thirteen points off. True Autumn's golden tan is nineteen points off and browner. On a Light Spring, this peach is a touch strong. On a True Autumn, it is a touch bright. Both borrow. The color to avoid confusing it with is a cool blush, which looks pink and sits in the Summers.

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, 2 in-stock pieces across Marine Layer and STAUD sample within a close match of #FBB080. 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.

Marisol Sweater Tank

Aperol

$75 at Marine Layer

Juanita Dress

Afterglow

$650 at STAUD

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 #FBB080 today, so they are the words to search for.

Marine Layer

Aperol

STAUD

Afterglow

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

The True Spring guide · All in-stock True Spring pieces · ← Grass green · Warm coral pink → · All colors