Since 1999, the Pantone Color of the Year educational program has declared the color of the year to engage the design community and color enthusiasts around the world in a conversation around color. The color is chosen by global color experts at the Pantone Color Institute. The 2024 Pantone Color of the Year is Pantone E 13-1023 Peach Fuzz.
“Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. It’s a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body, and soul,” says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director, Pantone Color Institute. “In seeking a hue that echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection, we chose a color radiant with warmth and modern elegance. A shade that resonates with compassion, offers a tactile embrace, and effortlessly bridges the youthful with the timeless.”
According to the Pantone, here’s how you can use Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz: Visually arresting and inviting, Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz is a nurturing peach tone that inspires us to instinctively want to reach out and touch. Conveying a message of tactility that comes through in sueded, velvety, quilted, and furry textures, luxuriously soothing and soft to the touch, Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz is an enveloping peach hue that awakens our senses to the comforting presence of tactility and cocooned warmth.”
The 2023 Pantone Color of the Year is Viva Magenta.
