New Year, New Color - Introducing The 2022 Pantone Color Of The Year
And the 2022 Pantone Color of the Year is (drumroll please 🥁🥁🥁)…
PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri
So, what’s the story behind the Pantone Color of the Year?
“For 23 years, Pantone’s Color of the Year has influenced product development and purchasing decisions in multiple industries, including fashion, home furnishings, and industrial design, as well as product packaging and graphic design.”
This isn’t just some random color that Pantone thinks people will enjoy. A lot of thought and effort goes into picking the color each year.
Pantone’s color experts at the Pantone Color Institute™ look for new color influences and analyze trends all over the WORLD. Then, once the color is selected, it has a strong influence over many different industries. According to www.pantone.com, these trend influences can include:
The entertainment industry
Films in production
Traveling art collections
New artists
Fashion
All areas of design
Popular travel destinations
New lifestyles
Playstyles
Socio-economic conditions
Tell me more about PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri
www.pantone.com
The 2022 color comes with a very special meaning:
“Displaying a carefree confidence and a daring curiosity that animates our creative spirit, inquisitive and intriguing PANTONE 17-3938 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, PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri places the future ahead in a new light.
We are living in transformative times. PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri is a symbol of the global zeitgeist of the moment and the transition we are going through. As we emerge from an intense period of isolation, our notions and standards are changing, and our physical and digital lives have merged in new ways. Digital design helps us to stretch the limits of reality, opening the door to a dynamic virtual world where we can explore and create new color possibilities. With trends in gaming, the expanding popularity of the metaverse and rising artistic community in the digital space PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri illustrates the fusion of modern life and how color trends in the digital world are being manifested in the physical world and vice versa.”
What are some of the past Pantone colors of the year?
Check out the past Pantone Colors of the Year… all the way back to 2000. Which one is your favorite? I love the Haylie’s Dailies neutral vibes of 2016 and 2006.
What are your thoughts on the 2022 Pantone Color of the Year? Let me know in the comments! If you want more info on the Pantone Color of the Year, click here.
Wishing a very Happy New Year to you and yours!
xoxo Haylie
Source: Pantone, www.pantone.com