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Mocha Mousse is the 2025 Pantone Color of the Year

2024-12-05T14:50:00-05:00

The official Pantone Color of the Year for 2025 is "Mocha Mousse." The coffee-inspired tone "transports our senses into pleasure," the company claims, while celebrating a connection to the natural world. It follows a 2024 in which the less-versatile Peach Fuzz was marketed as being the dominant color strain. The annual announcement is always followed by criticism about the brand tie-ins that accompany it (though, as the New Jersey-based institute's Vice President Laurie Pressman said last year, it is generally meant to instigate a "conversation around color" in design circles worldwide).

Pressman says of the 2025 selection: "The everlasting search for harmony filters through into every aspect of our lives including our relationships, the work we do, our social connections and the natural environment that surrounds us. Harmony brings feelings of contentment, inspiring a posi9ve state of inner peace, calm, and balance as well as being tuned in with the world around us. Harmony embrace...

Peach Fuzz is the 2024 Pantone Color of the Year

2023-12-07T14:37:00-05:00

Pantone has selected "Peach Fuzz" as its official Color of the Year for 2024. Twelve months after announcing "Viva Magenta" as its selection for 2023, the New Jersey-based company continued with the springtime palette with a light and bright color they claim will have an impact on an increasingly turbulent and divisive world.

"In seeking a hue that echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection, we chose a color radiant with warmth and modern elegance," the Pantone Color Institute’s Executive Director Leatrice Eiseman describes. "A shade that resonates with compassion, offers a tactile embrace, and effortlessly bridges the youthful with the timeless."

A staple of many modern-day cosmetics boutiques, coffee shops, startup offices, and other retail spaces has also become a runway favorite of late, according to CNN. The company has faced a fair amount of criticism over the 25 years of its program’s development, though as the institute’s Vice President Laurie Pressman explained...

Viva Magenta is Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2023

2023-01-09T17:52:00-05:00

Pantone has announced Viva Magenta as its Color of the Year for 2023, ending a (mostly) blue-gray-hued streak that’s predominated for the past three years.

Offering a “new signal of strength” that’s useful for “writing a new narrative,” the eye-catching shade of red can set the tone for individuals apparently possessing a rebellious spirit and joie de vivre while encouraging a wide range of things, including experimentation, individuality, and inclusiveness.

Pantone’s Executive Director Leatrice Eiseman said: “In this age of technology, we look to draw inspiration from nature and what is real. PANTONE 18-1750 Viva Magenta descends from the red family, and is inspired by the red of cochineal, one of the most precious dyes belonging to the natural dye family as well as one of the strongest and brightest the world has known.”

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The company is often criticized for its annual color theory flack that draws on marketing ...

Very Peri is the 2022 Pantone Color of the Year

2021-12-16T15:13:00-05:00

Pantone’s much-heralded Color of the Year has been announced, with “Very Peri” taking the top billing as pastels continue to dominate the annual list.

The lilac-esque shade of blue is supposedly embiotic of the shifts in cultural attitudes and individual expression as we move towards a more progressive and open-minded society.

Pantone identified the color as “Displaying a carefree confidence and a daring curiosity that animates our creative spirit,” adding that the “inquisitive and intriguing Very Peri helps us to embrace this altered landscape of possibilities, opening us up to a new vision as we rewrite our lives. Rekindling gratitude for some of the qualities that blue represents complemented by a new perspective that resonates today.”

The color is very much in vogue this season as fashion retailers have looked to reverse the traditional fall-winter color schemes in favor of a palette more typically associated with spring. Pantone’s secretive selection process typically yields a ...

Pantone has selected 2021's "color(s) of the year" – should architects care?

2020-12-10T16:04:00-05:00

The announcement of the Pantone Color of the Year seems to cause the media to stir every year. While everyone jumps on the hype showcasing how "excited" they are, how do color trends impact architects?

Don't get me wrong; I love seeing the use of color in projects. The study of color theory is valuable and impacts a project tremendously. Verner Panton and Josef Albers are probably two of the most recognizable color aficionados in design, amongst others, but do these yearly trends make their way into built projects?

While the public may "welcome" the 2021 color of the year (PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating), its announcement is more of a reminder that color trends don't have much weight unless they're used and applied.

To see color in action we've gathered eleven projects featured on Archinect that celebrate color and its use.

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Pantone's 2020 Color of the Year does more than define trends, it aims to evoke a color language of dependability and resonance

2019-12-05T13:03:00-05:00

Color plays an important role in architecture. Whether it's to create a mood or embellish on an interior's detail colors helps architects and designers convey many things, some have made entire careers out of color and its uses. Just ask Verner Panton, Josef Albers, or Paul Klee, color and color theory is a specialization that shouldn't be overlooked.

The Pantone Color Institute, the world leader in global color research and trends, has announced the Pantone Color of the Year for 2020. PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue will is the color many have been praising since Pantone made the announcement.

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Leatrice Esieman, the executive director of the Pantone Color Institute shares in a press statement, "We are living in a time that requires trust and faith. It is this kind of constancy and confidence that is expressed by Pantone 19-4052 Classic Blue, a solid and dependable blue hue we can always rely on. Imbued with a deep resonance, Classic Blue provides and anchoring foundat...

Two words, six digits...Pantone's 2019 Color of the Year is Living Coral

2018-12-06T13:17:00-05:00

"Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet." Famed artist Paul Klee said it best when it comes to describing color and its importance in our lives. With that said, Pantone, a leader in color matching and color systems has announced the 2019 Color of the Year.

Designers, artists, and architects alike know how much color and its presence and absence influence design. For the past 20 years, Pantone has released its annual color of the year to the public. Influential in various aspects of the industry, the announcement influences product development, purchasing decisions, graphic design, and more in multiple industries. The search for new color influences is what the company's color experts scour the world for.

The Pantone Color Institute is an entity within Pantone that researches and highlights global color trends and seasonal runway colors while advising companies on color a...

Don't buy into the Pantone hype

2015-12-18T17:50:00-05:00

They decided that pink and blue were calming and cause for calmness. Then they decided that to convince you that you needed calm, they montaged a butt-load of anxiety ridden images with scratchy graphics and capitalized words that evoke social pressure and inadequacy. [...] Don’t encourage everyone to chill, when you really want them to be docile. Don’t urge everyone to slow down when you really want them to buy.

This delicious rant against Pantone's "Color of the Year" awards, which this year went to "Rose Quartz" (pink) and "Serenity" (blue), brought to you by "writer and curator focused on photo, prisons and power," Pete Brook. His critique of the competition, and the presentation of its winners – as a means of manufacturing need through imposing stress – rings particularly true in the holiday season.

Watch Pantone's video announcing the winning colors below, to see for yourself:

From revolting to revolt: Why is my office this color?

2014-01-09T13:48:00-05:00

“Avocado Green,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. “And Harvest Gold.” Those were the colors of the 70’s, with a nice helping of brown. “It was all so pervasive in that time,” Eiseman says – without derision, notably. In the early eighties, the dominant color scheme was mauve, gray, and turquoise. Back then, color trends were virtually “dictatorial,” says Eiseman, “everyone marched to the same drummer.” Then, consumers revolted.