Ultimate Gray and Illuminating Are the Pantone Colours of the Year for 2021

Looking to repaint, or perhaps even rebuild or refurnish your home? But you don't know which color scheme or pattern to follow? Perhaps homeowners, builders and designers should take heed the recommendations or suggestions of the Pantone Color Institute! Originating in 1963, the color-matching system of the Pantone Institute in the US has been hailed as the most important, and the most influential, color-matching system in the planet. And for this year, they've chosen Illuminating and Ultimate Gray as their colors of the year!

Illuminating and Ultimate Gray Represent Strength and Hopefulness

With 2020 considered anything but a happy and cheerful year (considering the corona virus pandemic and the ensuing social and economic upheaval), many of us look to 2021 with a little hope and promise. Perhaps this is the reason why the world-famous Pantone Color Institute has chosen two colors that  express a message of hope and strength – Illuminating and Ultimate Gray!

According to the color-matching experts, the selection of these two colors highlights how various elements come together to express a positive message of hope and strength, one that is uplifting and conveys the concept that's it's not just about one color or one person.

The union or marriage between Illuminating and Enduring Gray should provide everyone who's had a tough time in 2020 with resilience and hope, and the color match should help everyone feel encouraged and uplifted too, which is essential to the human spirit.

What Pantone's Chosen Colors Mean to Homeowners, Builders and Designers

The Pantone Color Institute actually serves as a consultant of sorts to designers, marketers, brands, creators and even home builders  to work together and create a strong and powerful color presence.

And, as the world's leading color-matching system, their wisdom and knowledge of color is perhaps unmatched and unparalleled. This means that their expertise in color affects not just design but also the consumer market as a whole.

Their color-matching wizardry also serves as a potent marketing message or force which helps textile and fashion designers, technology makers and even furniture makers on how to make design choices from one season to another.

Thus, starting this first quarter of 2021, many of us will eventually begin to notice that designers, marketers, retailers and various brands releasing dresses, skirts, swimsuits, exterior paints and even shoes or toothbrushes that have a mix of gray and yellow!

According to one famous fashion designer in the United States, “yellow makes people happy and gray serves as the perfect neutral”. Another expert on house renovations stresses that although gray has been noted in many dark moments in 2020, the bursting, bold optimism of yellow makes it feel like there is a lot of hope in the horizon.

So, if you're planning to do home renovations, regardless of whether they're simple or major renovation jobs, perhaps you could take heed of the Pantone Color Institute's suggestions.  Well, you could choose to use a splash of yellow with large swaths of gray to create a strong visual statement in your home.