buy red if you believe in pink! https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahconstantin/p/2025-color-trends?r=1nforx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

buying more green bc its a brat summer

come predict the 2025 Colour of the Year 🎨🖌️

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| Year | Pantone Color of the Year | Closest Color |

|------|-------------------|----------|

| 2000 | Cerulean | Blue |

| 2001 | Fuchsia Rose | Red |

| 2002 | True Red | Red |

| 2003 | Aqua Sky | Blue |

| 2004 | Tigerlily | Orange |

| 2005 | Blue Turquoise | Blue |

| 2006 | Sand Dollar | Brown |

| 2007 | Chili Pepper | Red |

| 2008 | Blue Iris | Purple |

| 2009 | Mimosa | Yellow |

| 2010 | Turquoise | Blue |

| 2011 | Honeysuckle | Red |

| 2012 | Tangerine Tango | Orange |

| 2013 | Emerald | Green |

| 2014 | Radiant Orchid | Purple |

| 2015 | Marsala | Brown |

| 2016 | Rose Quartz & Serenity| Pink & Blue|

| 2017 | Greenery | Green |

| 2018 | Ultra Violet | Purple |

| 2019 | Living Coral | Orange |

| 2020 | Classic Blue | Blue |

| 2021 | Ultimate Gray & Illuminating | Gray & Yellow |

| 2022 | Very Peri | Purple. |

| 2023 | Viva Magenta | Red |

| 2024 | TBD | TBD |

- Blue: 5 times

- Red: 5 times

- Orange: 3 times

- Purple: 4 times

- Brown: 2 times

- Green: 2 times

- Yellow: 1 time

- Pink & Blue: 1 time (counted as a single instance for a unique combination)

- Gray & Yellow: 1 time (also a unique combination)

@deepfates 2024 is Peach Fuzz, closest to orange

@Lily okay i bet they do it again

@deepfates bold! just like the color orange

impressive field this year. they've never really trotted out a strong orange, but they did a weaksauce coral a couple years back and this year's peach is probably too close to go back-to-back. a couple purples in recent years, but it seems to be a perennial favorite, and I like a lavender's chances if the committee is willing to branch out into repeat pastels — historically unprecedented, but not unthinkable. if that's on the table, then seafoam fits the bill too.

we seem due for a brown, maybe copper or umber, but why have they never run one before? might be a tough marketing play: can't pitch it as soothing like a gray but can't really fill that vibrancy niche either. personally, a cool-toned olive variant makes me weak, but might be another decade before the public is ready for that.

@Lily i havent voted yet but i honestly think we could see a zoomery yellow

@sympatheticopp

a buttercup could bridge the bright-calm divide nicely

personally, a cool-toned olive variant makes me weak, but might be another decade before the public is ready for that.

@Lily I am really, really ready for this 🥵

has anyone run statistical analysis on past colors of the year there's gotta be a better than random way to guess

i just picked green bc i like green and it hasn't been a COTY since 2017

https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/decorate/g25463774/pantone-colour-of-the-year/

This is conditional on there being only one color of the year. Sometimes they do a couple

@CGd3da what happens with this market if they do choose a couple of colours?