Interior Design

Pantone picks spring shade as color of 2017

Will it be the next Cerulean blue, the breakout star of 2000?

By Brock Keeling@BrockKeeling Dec 8, 2016, 9:24am PST

Pantone, who bill themselves as “the global color authority,” revealed what the color of 2017 will be today. Bringing to mind a walk through Wine Country in May or Estee Lauder’s masterpiece Private Collection perfume, the color company’s selection was pulled from their catalog of greens.

Pantone 15-0343, aka Greenery, will be the color everyone and everything will want to sport next year, or so says the company.

“[A] fresh and zesty yellow-green shade that evokes the first days of spring when natures greens revive, restore, and renew,” says the Pantone.

“We know what kind of world we are living in: one that is very stressful and very tense,“ Leatrice Eiseman, the executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, tells the New York Times. “This is the color of hopefulness, and of our connection to nature.”

But before anyone runs to buy buckets of the color for their walls, do take note that, no matter the shade, green is a bold color, to say the least. “I once painted a room in an old apartment that color,” says Curbed NY editor Amy Pitt. “Let me tell you, it was a lot.”

Here are some ways in which the color of 2017 can be used.