In 2021, earthy colors such as brown, beige, greige, and with complementary accent colours like light blue and yellow were very popular. This indicates the need to have grounded colours that are positive. The colour trend for this year is the natural continuation of it, with gentle shades like green and blue dominating, expressing hope and growth, and the desire to be closer in nature.
Bright Skies
The Trend Forecast team at AkzoNobel, Dulux’s parent company, distilled the insights gathered across industries into four key trends: the reinvention of our home as a multifunctional space, the necessity of integrating nature into our lives, the power of the arts to bring us comfort and inspiration, and the need for us to break out of our social bubbles as we try to shape the world for the better.
The team combined these elements into a common theme: a breath-of-fresh air. This conveys our universal need for renewal and revitalisation. Then it translated it into colours and set about to identify the Colour of the Year – Bright Skies, described as “an airy, light blue that’s fresh, open and good for the soul”, which brings a hint of the natural world (the skies) inside and pairs well with a host of other shades, from soft neutrals to cheerful colours.
Evergreen Fog
American paint company Sherwin-Williams’ 2022 Colour of the Year is Evergreen Fog, a soothing green suitable for indoors and out.
“Evergreen Fog inspires us to begin again and is a great choice for modern interiors and exteriors,” says Sue Wadden, director of colour marketing at Sherwin-Williams.
Sue recommends pairing the shade alongside organic neutrals like cream, greige and bronze, as well a beige, cream, greige and copper. Evergreen Fog is a great choice for retro-inspired palettes, such as cobalt and matte orange.
Nippon Paint’s Colour of Fortune
“The year of the water tiger marks a challenging and competitive landscape that can be visualised as a training ground in a dense forest,” says the Way Fengshui team, the brain behind Nippon Paint’s Colours of Fortune Calendar 2022. “Stay positive and be resourceful in dealing with challenges.”
Nippon Paint declared Vintage Vase, a warm brown, its Colour of the year. It also selected three lucky colors for each of the twelve zodiacs in the calendar. This year’s selection is also populated by shades of green and blue, complemented by soft yellow, brown-toned red, and soft creamy neutrals.
The lucky colours of the tiger are, for instance, black, blue, or green. You can start small by incorporating these colors through details, or go large with a complete wall.
Pantone Fashion Colour Trend Core Classics
Pantone recently announced Very Peri as its colour of the year. It is a great accent colour to natural colours.
Pantone also released its Fashion Colour Trend Report, which was published ahead of the Fashion Weeks in London/New York 2022, which will influence colour trends worldwide.
The FCTRs are a combination of a trendy Colour Palette in 10 shades and a complementary Core Classics in five shades. “Colours for Spring/Summer 2022 bring together our competing desires for comforting familiarity and joyful adventure through
a range of soothing and timeless colours, along with joyous hues that celebrate playfulness,” said Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Colour Institute.
The Spring/Summer 2022 Core Classics, LFW and NYFW, highlight a strong preference to pastel greens (16-6216 basil and 15- 6316 Fair Green), as well as whites and nourishing Browns (11-1001 White Alyssum and 11-0602 Snow White), whites (13-0003 Perfectly Pale, 13-0003 Humus and 15-1304 Humus), and greys (18-4004 Poppy Seed and 14-4104 Northern Droplet), all of which are great with each other.
To create different impressions, you can alter the ratio of the colours.
This article appeared in Home and Decor for the first time.
Source: Her World