Pantone’s 2022 Color of the Year Is Here!
If you have grown tired of the dour mood this last year and a half has thrown at us, Pantone’s 2022 color of the year is for you: Today the global color authority named Very Peri, a vibrant periwinkle with violet undertones, as the hue that will define the months ahead.
Very Peri (officially Pantone 17-3938 Very Peri) is a dramatic move away from last year’s two-pronged color of the year designation, Ultimate Gray and a canary yellow called Illuminating. This year’s choice symbolizes a bold emergence from a shared moment of isolation, according to the company’s forecasters, but with the stability we associate with shades of blue. “Encompassing the qualities of the blues, yet at the same time possessing a violet-red undertone, Pantone 17-3938 Very Peri displays a spritely, joyous attitude and dynamic presence that encourages courageous creativity and imaginative expression,” Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, said in the announcement.
For interiors and the home, Very Peri has the potential to bring a playful pop of color and animate any room, whether on walls (just see this lavender-doused arts club we published earlier this year, designed by Susan Barrett) or in decorative objects and furniture. Pantone’s color of the year is also on point with the projections of other design companies, notably Coloro and WGSN’s prediction that a shimmering purple hue dubbed Digital Lavender will be all the rage through 2023.
Very Peri marks the first time that Pantone created a new color tailor-made for its color of the year program (generally, a hue is selected from the company’s existing spectrum). This brand new tone represents “the global innovation and transformation taking place,” Laurie Pressman, the Pantone Color Institute’s vice president, added, as well as “the expansive possibilities that lie before us.”
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