Pantone Introduces Pantone Color of the Year 2024: PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz
- A compassionate and nurturing soft peach shade conveying a heartfelt kindness,
- PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz marks the 25th anniversary of the Pantone Color of the Year program
CARLSTADT,
N.J – December 7, 2023 – Pantone, the global color authority and
provider of professional color language standards and digital solutions
for the design community, today introduced PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz, a
velvety gentle peach whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body,
and soul as the Pantone Color of the Year selection for 2024.
At
a time of turmoil in many aspects of our lives, our need for nurturing,
empathy and compassion grows ever stronger as does our imaginings of a
more peaceful future. A warm and cozy shade highlighting our desire for
togetherness with others and the feeling of sanctuary this creates,
PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz presents a fresh approach to a new softness.
Subtly sensual, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz is a heartfelt peach hue
bringing a feeling of tenderness and communicating a message of caring
and sharing, community and collaboration.
“A cozy peach hue softly
nestled between pink and orange, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz brings
belonging, inspires recalibration, and an opportunity for nurturing,
conjuring up an air of calm, offering us a space to be, feel, and heal
and to flourish from whether spending time with others or taking the
time to enjoy a moment by ourselves,” says Leatrice Eiseman, Executive
Director, Pantone Color Institute. “Drawing comfort from PANTONE 13-1023
Peach Fuzz, we can find peace from within, impacting our wellbeing. An
idea as much as a feeling, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz awakens our senses
to the comforting presence of tactility and cocooned warmth.”
Sensitive
but sweet and airy, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz evokes a new modernity.
While centered in the human experience of enriching and nurturing the
mind body and soul, it is also a quietly sophisticated and contemporary
peach with depth whose gentle lightness is understated but impactful
bringing beauty to the digital world. Poetic and romantic, a clean
peach tone with a vintage vibe, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz reflects the
past yet has been rephrased to have a contemporary ambiance.
The
introduction of PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz also marks the 25th
anniversary of the Pantone Color of the Year program. First introduced
by the Pantone Color Institute in 1999 with the Pantone Color of the
Year, PANTONE 15-4020 Cerulean Blue, the Pantone Color of the Year
captures the global zeitgeist, serving as an expression of a mood and an
attitude on the part of the consumer. Through the years, the Pantone
Color of the Year program has become a globally iconic cultural
touchstone, drawing attention to how what is taking place in our global
culture is reflected and expressed through the language of color.
“With
this year’s Pantone Color of the Year 2024, we see an increased focus
on community and people across the world reframing how they want to live
and evaluating what is important – that being the comfort of being
close to those we love. The color is one whose warm and welcoming
embrace conveys a message of compassion and whose cozy sensibility
brings people together and enriches the soul,” added Laurie Pressman,
Vice President of the Pantone Color Institute. “In the spirit of PANTONE
13-1023 Peach Fuzz, we reflect back on the last 25 years of the Pantone
Color of the Year program grateful to provide an avenue where designers
and color enthusiasts all over the world can engage in a conversation
about color, be inspired by color and showcase their creativity within
their communities. We look forward to continuing this for many more
years to come.”
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