Teal on warm, clear skin tones (True Spring)
Close without landing: with warm, clear colouring, teal misses the True Spring palette by ΔE 21.2.
The answer
Close, but not a match. Teal sits just outside the True Spring palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #2FB9A5, ΔE 21.2 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 teal scores across all twelve seasons
Teal is an opinionated colour: True Autumn scores it 83 and Bright Winter scores it 25. A gap that wide means the colour genuinely decides something, and getting it right is worth the effort.
True Spring sits 8 of twelve at 47, 36 points behind True Autumn. That gap is the honest size of the compromise, not a verdict on the colour.
- True Autumn: 83 (ΔE 6.9).
- True Winter: 82 (ΔE 7.4).
- True Summer: 72 (ΔE 11.3).
- True Spring: 47 (ΔE 21.2) <- this season.
- Bright Winter: 25 (ΔE 30.0).
What to wear instead
Nearest first. These are the colours in the True Spring palette that get closest to what you wanted from teal, so the substitution costs the least.
- #2FB9A5: light, nearest common name emerald green (ΔE 18.8).
- #3AA6D0: mid-tone, a sky blue (ΔE 11.1).
- #3FC1C9: light, nearest common name sky blue (ΔE 15.2).
Updated 19 August 2026