Pantone 2021 Color of the Year
Pantone 2021 color philosophy
Pantone Color Institute calls a combination of Ultimate Grey and Illuminating Yellow to be the colors of 2021 saying it to be the embodiment of hope for the better tomorrow.
Pantone choses a color to symbolically set up visual trends for the whole year. This time two colors have been chosen:
· 17-5104 Ultimate Grey - "calming grey" reminding beach pebble and „rock-solid” basements
· 13-0647 Illuminating - "sunny yellow" bringing hope, optimism and a belief in better tomorrow
Pantone describes the chosen pair as a “marriage of two colors bringing the power and hope, helping to regenerate and restore the spirit”.
We are about to see tons of social media content, high and street fashion inspired with Ultimate Grey and Illuminating Yellow combination. Beauty industry is definitely a perfect place to take the best of the new color combination for nail art, make-up, packaging labels or even cosmetic containers.
Here is some color of the year-inspired cosmetics. Related packaging can be found in our store.
Pantone for cosmetics
What does Pantone have to do with cosmetics? It’s packaging and even product coloration, of course! Use the trendy grey and yellow tints to highlight the strongest features of your brand and your products. Combination of grey and yellow evokes innate feelings of freshness and fluency in line with most desired trends.
Yellow is a perfect color to combine with ginger, lemons, honey, vanilla or chamomile, the best ingredients for energy, spirit power, health, and optimism – something need the most through the pandemic and lockdowns.
Color of the year cosmetic inspirations
honey balm in grey aluminum jars – a classy energizing lemon
and minimalistic, but at the same time vivid combination cosmetics fitted with similarly bright containers
Transparent PET containers fitted with grey aluminum closure. Find them here: