2012 Color Forecast

Colors for Fall Winter of 2012? Does anybody really pay attention? Maybe not the 'everyday' folks but count on the fact that the selected colors forecasted for every season will affect things they wear, decorate their homes with, even the color of the cars they drive!

PANTONE VIEW Color Planner Fall/Winter 2012/2013 contains the following eight palettes:

• Lodestar – Follow your personal star!
  A range of vivid and vibrant tones, which strongly stimulate your optic nerve and allow you to “see” the world.
• Composed – Something new comes out of the shadows!
  A series of color crescendos from muted warm or cool browns to foggy grayed greens, as well as turquoise and khaki, finishing with a dark coda of chocolate and graphite.
• Submerge – The world turned upside down!
  A scale of oxygenated and salty blues descends to blackened ink, stone and moss. An underwater garden beneath an underwater sky.
• Radiate – Break the rules! Use the force of aesthetics!
  Radiate is pure happiness, and very colorful. Do not be scared by shades of bright reds, embarrassing violets and vulgar oranges. Be brave and mix them all together.
• Touchstone – Take pleasure in things that are old and loved!
  Traditional colors take the limelight: brown-black, mahogany, sandalwood, saddle, mid and dark tan, midnight, glossy navy – balanced by a trusty neutral.
• Aperture – New ways of perceiving the universe!
  A range, which includes the luminous and the somber, hot and cold, a centrifugal force and a centripetal force, the macro and the micro, the atom and the universe.
• Converge – Reconnect to your natural power!
  Converge is about deep, informed colors gathered together at a central point and then merged in a new creative way.
• Peripheral – Appreciate the small elements!
  Using honest, flat, uncomplicated, warm color, we slowly build complex forms as we appreciate how little elements work together to produce great things.

Pantone

• Lighter blues and navy increase in importance.
• Leathery brown becomes more important as a basic.
• Oxblood grows in popularity as browns, in general, adopt a redder hue.
• Olive becomes stronger.
• Purple and purple hues are still evident.
• Brights have a singular status for winter.
• Camel evolves into cappuccino and creamy hues.
• Yellows become softer and less sporty.
• Reds are becoming more orange.
• Traditional winter darks and berry colors are more mid-toned and less blackened.