As we wind down on 2024 and look toward the year ahead, we lean on trusted brands to offer a glimpse of what's in store for 2025. While we typically showcase the latest in design or appliance trends, today we’re sharpening the focus on the colors that will guide our...
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What’s YOUR Favorite Color of the Year?
Since 2000, the Pantone Color Institute has been anointing one lucky hue the coveted and mostwildly anticipated title of “Pantone Color of the Year.” Each December, design professionals andcolor lovers alike anxiously await the announcement so they can begin excitedly...
Paint Brands Designate 2022 as the Year of Green
Image from Benjamin Moore It seems the major paint companies are trying to tell us something. Collectively, they delivered a potent message with their 2022 Color of the Year choices: Green is here to stay for the foreseeable future. And judging from the top picks...
Pantone Creates a New Hue for 2022
“Carefree confidence,” “novel perspective,” and “joyous attitude.” These are just some of the attributes the Pantone Color Institute ascribes to its forward-looking 2022 Color of the Year, PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri. A mashup of blue and violet-red, the warm...
Paint Brands Unite to Designate 2022 as the Year of Green
Image from Benjamin Moore It seems the major paint companies are trying to tell us something. Collectively, they delivered a potent message with their 2022 Color of the Year choices: Green is here to stay for the foreseeable future. And judging from the top picks...
Colors of the Year Offer Variety and Inspiration
Every year, companies that specialize in color offer their choice for “Color of the Year.” We all know the practice is part prediction, part marketing ploy. But we still follow along to see how these offerings influence the design world, and it is hard not to feel...
Pantone Announces the 2021 Color(s) of the Year
Are you tired of staring at the same four white walls of your home? It’s time to add some color, and Pantone has just announced their colors of the year: Ultimate Gray and Illuminating. These two colors work together to bring new life to any part of your home. ...
Introducing the 2020 Color of the Year
Pantone has announced the color of the year for 2020: Classic Blue. Extensive research and discussions go into choosing the color each year and how it reflects our world: intention-setting, nature, generation, fashion, and home. We think their observations are spot-on...
Pantone Announces the Color of the Year for 2019
In the 20th year of watching and predicting color trends, Pantone has announced a return to simpler and happier times with Living Coral as the Color of the Year. According to Pantone, “Vibrant, yet mellow PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral embraces us with warmth and...
Announcing the 2018 Color of the Year
The Pantone Team actively searches general lifestyle and color trends all year long to choose a color of the year. The goal is to communicate a color message that best reflects what is taking place in the world at the time. Having evolved over recent years, the...
Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2017: Greenery
Each year Pantone chooses a color of the year as a symbolic color selection. The color is a snapshot of what we see taking place in our global culture that serves as an expression of a mood and an attitude. Greenery is the nomination for 2017. According to Leatrice...
Colors Driving Fashion and Design for 2016
Pantone Nominates Not One, But Two, Colors of the Year. Pantone recently announced its color of the year for 2016. Normally this is a single color that is reflective of home trends as well as runway trends. This color also goes deeper as a symbolic color selection, a...