#FF7855
Coral
A True Spring color
anchor color 1 of 10 in True Spring. Also called Warm Spring in other systems.
By Kathleen Olsen · Updated November 11, 2026
Coral is orange and pink in equal measure, light and warm and clear. It is the first anchor of True Spring and the color the season is known for. Bright Spring's bright coral sits eight points away and the two Springs trade it freely. Any coral with grey in it has wandered toward Autumn.
Coral is an anchor color in True Spring. Its closest relative outside the palette is Bright coral #FF6F5E, a Bright Spring color, at a perceptual distance of 8. That is near enough for that season to wear it as a neutral, with the accents kept in its own palette.
Coral is the one warm color the market produces reliably every spring, and the version that suits a True Spring is the clear one: no muting, no brown, the color of the inside of a shell. It reads as pink from a distance and orange up close. On a True Spring it makes the skin look lit; on a cool season it makes the skin look like it has been slapped.
The test is the grey. Hold the garment beside a true orange. If the coral looks clean, like a lighter orange with pink in it, it is a Spring coral. If it looks dusty, it is Soft Autumn's dusty terracotta or something near it, and that one wants a different face.
True Spring wears coral the way a Winter wears red: as the one piece that carries the outfit, with cream, camel or warm navy beside it. Coral with white looks like summer. Coral with black looks like someone else's idea.
Bright coral, #FF6F5E, is the Bright Spring version, eight points away and a touch more saturated. Coral red in the same palette is eleven off with more red. True Autumn is twenty points off and its equivalent is burnt sienna, the same hue with the light taken down. Soft Autumn's dusty terracotta is the muted cousin.
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).
Bright coral #FF6F5E
Bright Spring anchor · ΔE 8
Coral red #F25C4A
Bright Spring anchor · ΔE 11
Warm coral #FA8E76
Light Spring anchor · ΔE 17
Burnt sienna #C4532A
True Autumn anchor · ΔE 18
Clear orange #F26B21
Bright Spring anchor · ΔE 19
Terracotta #C46A45
Dark Autumn anchor · ΔE 21
As of November 11, 2026, nothing in stock samples close to #FF7855. 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. Coral (#FF7855) is an anchor color in the True Spring palette, and close enough to a Bright Spring color for that season to wear it as a neutral.
Yes. Bright Spring is six points from this coral and has its own bright coral eight points away. The two Springs share this color; Bright Spring's version is a shade more saturated.
True Autumn can wear it at the edge, twenty points off, and does better in burnt sienna, the same hue darkened. Soft Autumn wants dusty terracotta, the muted version. Clear coral on either Autumn reads a little bright.
Both. It has more red than yellow and more yellow than blue. Beside a pink it looks orange, beside an orange it looks pink. The Spring version is clear; the Autumn versions are muted or darkened.
For a True Spring: cream, camel, warm navy, golden brown, warm turquoise. Coral with white is the summer uniform. Coral with black belongs to a different season.
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