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Color - Interiors & Home Products

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Image: Claude Monet, Water Lilies from The Paris Review

Pantone Color of the Year 2025

Pantone Color of the Year 2025: Mocha Mousse

Pantone Color 2025 - Mocha Mousse Swatch"Pantone 17-1230 Mocha Mousse is a warming, brown hue imbued with richness. It nurtures us with its suggestion of the delectable qualities of chocolate and coffee, answering our desire for comfort." Click the color swatch to see more.

Pantone Color of the Year 2024: Peach Fuzz

"Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. It's a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body, and soul." Click the color swatch to see more.

Pantone Color of the Year 2023: Viva Magenta

Pantone Color of the Year 2023 - Viva Magenta"Pantone 18-1750 Viva Magenta descends from the red family, and is inspired by the red of cochineal, one of the most precious dyes belonging to the natural dye family as well as one of the strongest and brightest the world has known." (Color of the year 2023: PANTONE®) Click the color swatch to see more.

Pantone of the Year 2023 Announcement Video

Pantone Color Of The Year From Past Years

 

 

Web Sites: Color / Design Sources

Books: Color / Design Sources

This is a very broad category of informaton.  The suggested sources here might be useful when beginning your research to get a feel for the design and colors of a particular time period.  The Library has many titles on decorative arts (fabrics, furniture, etc.), the individual decades of the 20th & 21st centuries, magazines and newspapers from the decades, and much more.  Use OneSearch to search for specific subjects.