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Pantone Color(s) of the Year 2016 | Pad Patter 12.2.15

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Did you see that Pantone has picked their color of the year for 2016... but the twist is that it is two colors.

Yay or nay on these??


 
Naaay!! I'm having flashbacks to mauve and dusty blue everything in the late 80s/early 90s!
 
I brought it over to my other screen in hopes it was prettier..boo thumbs down for me...blah and so meh
 
Two colors is fine. I like options, but why did both of them have to be bad.
I am a fan of pink, but not this color pink. :(
 
Ditto re the yuck.. they must be going with the baby theme here. Enough.. lol
 
Oh, it does look like "baby", Christa. ewwww. I'm not a fan of pastels anyway. The brighter the better for me. That said, the blue is OK (being positive).
 
perhaps I'm just silly. Why does Pantone decide the color for the entire year...? And what happens when they do decide?

They're not bad colors, but I totally see baby. It was my first thought.
 
I went to look more at this....and have to admit...
my favorite outfit, is a pair of soft jeans this color blue, and a pink sweater, that I could wear til it fell off my body...seeing it flowing made me like it
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klee73010 said:
perhaps I'm just silly. Why does Pantone decide the color for the entire year...? And what happens when they do decide?
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I think they're just kind of forecasting color trends.

The boy/girl association is intentional. They write on their website, "In many parts of the world we are experiencing a gender blur as it relates to fashion, which has in turn impacted color trends throughout all other areas of design. This more unilateral approach to color is coinciding with societal movements toward gender equality and fluidity, the consumer's increased comfort with using color as a form of expression, a generation that has less concern about being typecast or judged and an open exchange of digital information that has opened our eyes to different approaches to color usage."

I'm not sure that I agree that choosing stereotypical gendered baby colors does what they want, but there it is.
 
I have to agree with everyone else its blahh and therefore boring. I get the whole gender thing yadda yadda but there are much more exciting shades of these colors they could have gone with in my opinion. Not that they are ugly just not fun and exciting.
 
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