Pantone's chosen color for 2014 is out...and it just continues the trend of brighter in-your-face shades.
(I especially could have done without their 2009 choice...wear this shade, or paint your walls with it, and it makes you look like you've got the flu. Ewww.)
Previous years' colors:
And this year's choice?
Drumroll please....
RADIANT ORCHID! ("A captivating, enigmatic, magical purple")
Okay with me...I love a beautiful fuschia or chartreuse. Pantone calls this "an enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones" that
"inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health." Sounds like someone is just a
leetle bit fond of gushy emotions. But hey -- enthusiasm isn't to be sneezed at, even if it's corny.
I've been saying to students that we're headed toward the vivid, brassy colors of the Bicentennial era. This is just the continuing trend toward that direction -- more's coming!
(Read more about it
here at Apartment Therapy, or on the
Pantone site.)
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