LibGuides: Color: Trend Services / Databases

Color Trend Forecasting Services

These online database services are available to current FIT Students, Faculty and Staff. Login with your FIT username and password. Type COLOR into each trend service search bar to explore your options.

How To Use COLOR FORECASTING TOOLS

FIT Library YouTube - Color Forecasting Services Tutorials
Tutorial videos on using Color Forecasting Services and databases.
Explore These Color Palette Creation Tools
Subscription trend services and open access palette creation tools.
Look into the Pantone Color of the Year

Accessing Online Trend Services

Doneger Tobe This link opens in a new window
Requires an extra username and password. Login with your FIT username and password first, Use the password listed for Doneger.
Fashion Snoops This link opens in a new window
Users are required to create a MY FS account to use tools & workspace. Use your FIT email address as your username.
Use Mozilla/Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer (version 10 and up only - older versions of Internet Explorer are not compatible and will not allow images to display correctly).
Sophicolor This link opens in a new window
A color service with more than 4,500 unique colors. Includes Trend Intelligence with the latest color palettes.
Users are required to create an individual account:
1. Register for an account using link on our Library database page, using your FIT email.
2. In the Company field, enter "FIT," and for job title enter "FIT Student" or "FIT Faculty"
3. You will receive an email from Sophicolor once your account has been approved.
WGSN Fashion This link opens in a new window
Users are required to create an individual WGSN account
To access WGSN:
1. On the "Library Database A to Z List" page (https://www.fitnyc.edu/library/databases/a-to-z.php). select WGSN and login using your FIT username and password.
2. Before you proceed CLICK ON THE "+" sign for directions on how to login.
3. Students must create an account and re-activate their account every 90 days: click on "re-activate account". URL= https://www.wgsn.com/accounts/edu/
Students must create an account and re-activate their account every 90 days: click to create or re-activate account:
https://www-wgsn-com.libproxy.fitsuny.edu/accounts/edu

Locked out of your account for too many incorrect login attempts? Reset your password here:
https://www.wgsn.com/auth/forgotpassword

To access WGSN Fashion

login via the proxy and then with your WGSN username and password
select the part of the site you wish to use from the top menu under "Fashion"
Use an incognito browser to access this resource.Students must create an account and re-activate their account every 90 days: click on re-activate account.
WGSN Interiors This link opens in a new window
Trend reports & forecasting for home products. Users are required to create a WGSN account.
Follow instructions above to create an individual WGSN account.
WGSN Insight This link opens in a new window
Intelligence & research on latest consumer, marketing, retail, and innovation trends.
Users are required to create a WGSN account.
Follow instructions above to create an individual WGSN account.
WindowsWear This link opens in a new window
Contains images, 360 degree panoramas, and descriptions of physical and digital window displays in a real-time, searchable database of community-generated content that provides data on what retail environments look like around the world with coverage from 1931 to present.
1. Visit WindowsWear
2. Click “Join now” on the top right
3. Select "Academic" on the right
4. Under "existing members" select "FIT"
5. Create profile
6. Under "get started" select "student" or "faculty"
7. Use your FIT email and create a password
8. Click "join"
You will need to login to WindowsWear after authenticating via the proxy to use the site.

Current Print Forecasts Title List

These Forecasts are restricted to current FIT students, faculty and staff. Visitors may only view the past issues of these forecasts.

The Current Seasons are S/S 2023, F/W 2023/24, and S/S 2024.

(Please note: we may not have each forecast for each season. If we do not have the forecast you requested, we will ask if you would like to see the forecast from a different season or substitute a different forecast from the same season)

Color Association of the United States
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Fashion Color Forecast: Women-Men-Youth
Children, Color, Men, Women: color swatches, themes
Interiors/Environmental Color Forecast
Color, Interiors: color swatches; includes swatch fan
Color Solutions International (Firm)
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Color Analysis
Color: color swatches, themes, and palettes
Pantone
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Fashion Home + Interiors
Color: FHI Color Guide; color fan
Fashion Home + Interiors/Color Guide: New Colors
Color: color fan
Fashion Home + Interiors FHI Color Specifier: New Colors
Color: color chips
Precision Textile Color (Firm)
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Sophicolor Collections: Botanical Index
Color: color swatches for botanical themed palette
Sophicolor Collections: Celestial Index
Color: color swatches for celestial themed palette
Sophicolor Collections: Earthen Index
Color: color swatches for earthen themed palette
Trend Union (Firm)
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Colours
Color: Color combinations, themes