Terracotta on warm, light skin tones (Light Spring)

The answer

Close, but not a match. Terracotta sits just outside the Light Spring palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #F0A57E, ΔE 17.2 away. Under 12 reads as the same colour family; past 25 the two are visibly different colours.

It does not collide with anything on the season's avoid list, so the only question is distance.

How terracotta scores across all twelve seasons

Terracotta is an opinionated colour: Soft Autumn scores it 82 and Light Summer scores it 14. A gap that wide means the colour genuinely decides something, and getting it right is worth the effort.

Light Spring sits 7 of twelve at 57, 24 points behind Soft Autumn. That gap is the honest size of the compromise, not a verdict on the colour.

• Soft Autumn: 82 (ΔE 7.4).
• True Autumn: 79 (ΔE 8.4).
• True Spring: 77 (ΔE 9.4).
• Light Spring: 57 (ΔE 17.2) <- this season.
• Light Summer: 14 (ΔE 27.0).

What to wear instead

Nearest first. These are the colours in the Light Spring palette that get closest to what you wanted from terracotta, so the substitution costs the least.

• #F0A57E: light, nearest common name camel (ΔE 12.1).
• #A8917A: mid-tone, a camel (ΔE 8.3).
• #F5A98C: light, nearest common name coral (ΔE 13.2).