Pantone Color Of The Year 2022 : Very Peri (WAS MADE UP!)

New Year, New Color.  Every Year the Pantone Institute Experts analyze color trends from entertainment, art, fashion, travels, and other lifestyle inspirations to arrive at a color that highlights global trends. Society continues to recognize color as a critical form of communication; as a way to express and develop ideas, emotions, engage and connect. For example, the Pantone Color of the Year for 2021 was actually two colors: Grey and Buttery Yellow.  After a very distressing  year (Covid lockdown started here in the  USA in March 2020), Grey symbolized a quiet reassurance and resilience.  And, the illuminating, cheery, butter yellow reflected sunshine and optimism, about a better tomorrow. The Color of the Year 2022 , “called” Very Peri, is a color that the Pantone Institute invented!  Yep, they made it up!  It is also the New Color For A New Vision Of The World!  Keep Reading to learn more about Pantone’s Veri Peri.

It is the first time,ever, in the history of the Pantone Institute, that the Institute actually created a brand new color! According to  The Pantone Color Of the Year Educational Program, the new  invention, Veri Peri, reflects global innovation and transformation taking place. The new color, Veri Peri, is described as a “Futuristic” periwinkle blue with violet – red undertones!”  The Institute describes the “dynamic periwinkle blue hue with a vivifying violet-red undertone, blends the faithfulness, and constancy of blue with the energy and excitement of red.   Together, the two create an empowering mix of newess.” Also, Pantone states,” that Veri Peri reflects what is taking place in our global culture, expressing what people are looking for, that color can hope to answer.”

The complexity of the new color, Veri Peri , blue infused with red-violet, highlights the extensive possibilities that lie before us. Therefore, the vibrant Periwinkle blue with violet-red undertones is A New Color For A New Vision Of The World.  The reason is, Veri Peri is the symbol, representing the changes the world is experiencing, as we look to move beyond the isolation and uncertainty of the pandemic.  The color Veri Peri captures this feeling of newness!