Very Peri by Pantone Last but certainly not least, industry leader Pantone announced its color of the year for 2022 in early December. The selection was Very Peri, a perfectly purple blue shade of periwinkle.
This year's choice is Very Peri, a periwinkle blue-purple that is also the first of Pantone's Colours of the Year to be created from scratch, as opposed to chosen from their vast encyclopaedic colour catalogue.
Pantone have chosen Very Peri as their color of the year 2022. Very Peri is a blue shade with violet red undertone. And it is the first time in the Pantone history that they have chosen a new color as their color of the year.
PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri, a warm and friendly blue hue with a carefree confidence and joyful attitude, emboldens uninhibited expression and experimentation.
PPG selected a soft, organic shade of green called Olive Sprig PPG1125-4 as its color of the year 2022.
A cool blue paint colour called Bright Skies has been named Colour of the Year 2022 by paint brand Dulux. Described by Dulux as "an airy, light blue" the colour was chosen as it "perfectly captures the optimism and desire for a fresh start that is the mood of the moment".
Let's paint the town purple
At once calming and stimulating, embracing uncertainty and cautious optimism, we believe it is the perfect color to represent our feelings about an uncertain future. Here's to 2022.
Last Updated: March 08, 2022, 07:45 IST. Wearing purple on this day shows that you are joining other women across the world in solidarity to celebrate this special day. (
One color that you might be slightly surprised to learn is traditionally associated with New Year's Eve is purple. The connection is pretty obvious once you realize it, though.
Four major paint companies have selected a sophisticated, subtle gray-green shade as their Color of the Year (COTY). This convergence in focus on one color is highly unusual, and it suggests that the color experts honed in on a common consumer mindset: a desire for peace, tranquility, and connections with nature.
Pantone's Color of the Year, Viva Magenta 18-1750, vibrates with vim and vigor. It is a shade rooted in nature descending from the red family and expressive of a new signal of strength.
Today, red continues to be associated with good luck in the Chinese and other Asian cultures. Make sure to have some red nearby for good luck as you ring in the year. Purple is associated with wealth and was once worn only by royalty in Europe and Asia.
Following this, in 1983, Congress designated October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the color purple has since been associated with the fight to end domestic violence.