🎨every Pantone Color of the Year, 2015 to 2026

straight off pantone.com's own archive. some of these I'd frame, some I wouldn't paint a hallway

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2015 - Marsala (18-1438)

the one nobody remembers, wine-red, mostly forgotten by the time 2016 rolled around

2016 - Rose Quartz & Serenity (13-1520 / 15-3919)

first year they did two colors instead of one. pin this above the desk if you still do pastel branding

2017 - Greenery (15-0343)

2018 - Ultra Violet (18-3838)

still true as a lesson: purple ages badly on packaging within 2 years

2019 - Living Coral (16-1546)

2020 - Classic Blue (19-4052)

2021 - Ultimate Gray & Illuminating (17-5104 / 13-0858)

announced right as lockdowns started, the read-into-it pieces wrote themselves

2022 - Very Peri (17-3938)

2023 - Viva Magenta (18-1750)

2024 - Peach Fuzz (13-1023)

softest pick in a decade, everyone's moodboard went beige-adjacent that year

2025 - Mocha Mousse (17-1230)

2026 - Cloud Dancer (11-4201)

first white pick since the program started in 1999. (still true) that's a longer streak than I expected

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