Take a look back at the past 25 years of popular hues.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Pantone Color of the Year.
Pantone celebrates the power of color as a universal language that captures the unique state of the current year.
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Lets take a look at the colors selected by Pantone to represent every year of this century.
In a year where browns are having a moment,Pantone 17-1230 Mocha Moussemakes perfect sense.
This electrifying crimson-red tone symbolizes strength, empowerment, optimism, joy, and courage.
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Viva Magenta encourages freedom of expression and confident experimentation and inspires respect, compassion, and humanity.
The dynamic color combines the trustworthiness of blue with red’s stimulation, strength, and courage.
The bright lemon-yellow hue shines with vivacity and vitality and radiates optimism, joy, and hope.
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Pantone paired this uplifting yellow shade withPANTONE 17-5104 TCX Ultimate Gray, reinforcing positive energy with fortitude and resilience.
The mid-tone gray shade is innately diplomatic, representing neutrality and balance.
It is also a symbol of wisdom, maturity, resilience, and stability.
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Classic Blue is timeless, approachable, and friendly.
The color of water, blue, also brings clarity of thought and aids concentration.
This vivacious hue wont escape your gaze and evokes a warm, invigorating, and infectiously optimistic reaction.
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Its spirited quality embodies our desire for light-hearted playfulness and propels us into action.
It encourages boundaries to be pushed through creative practice and associates unconventionality with revolutionary discovery and artistic brilliance.
Ultra Violet has a mystic history and is often associated with mindfulness practices and spirituality.
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This vibrant green shade cant help but make you feel fresh, healthy, cleansed, and restored.
Together, they are the definition of peace and tranquility.
This color pairing represents the yearning for a calm mind and relief from the fast-paced and stressful modern-day life.
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A color inextricably linked to nature, Emerald has a revitalizing quality that enhances our sense of well-being.
2012: Tangerine Tango
PANTONE 17-1463 Tangerine Tangostrode into 2012 with vivaciousness.
The color encourages us to dance into the year with courage, positivity, and resilience.
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Honeysuckle pink symbolizes powerful feminity and emboldens us to approach life with self-assuredness and tenacity.
2010: Turquoise
PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoiseimmediately conjures images of tropical waters and relaxing island retreats.
This warm yellow shade exudes optimism and enthusiasm and energizes us to jump into and embrace whats to come.
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Yellow is also a symbol of enlightenment, as the color inspires curiosity, creativity, and innovation.
The color provides calming reassurance amidst global turmoil and uncertainty while communicating a playful touch of mystery and excitement.
Its designed to be seen and cant be ignored.
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Reminiscent of sandy island shores and organic materials, the color reveals the beauty of simplicity.
Sand Dollar is a gentle, comforting, familiar, and dependable presence in a complex world.
It connotes serenity, mental clarity, creativity, and open communication.
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The invigorating color radiates optimism, fun, happiness, enthusiasm, and exuberance.
Vibrating with life and energy, Tigerlily is inescapably uplifting and naturally warm and welcoming.
The color takes us onwards and upwards into the new year.
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The gentle, muted shade is reminiscent of the purity and innocence of childhood.
Pantone chose this color to recognize the devastating 9/11 attacks, represented with a distinguishably patriotic hue.
True Red is a universal symbol of love, passion, strength, power, courage, and danger.
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This color undoubtedly inspires confidence, assurance, and a sense of maturity that other pink shades often lack.
It marks a desire to stand out from the crowd and embrace ones playful and experimental side.
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