Friday, December 11, 2020
Pantone Announces Two Colors of the Year for 2021
mymodernmet.com: Each December, Pantone announces the new “Color of the Year” to inspire upcoming art and design trends for the following year. Last year, the color experts declared “Classic Blue” as its 2020 hue, with the intention of “Instilling calm, confidence, and connection.” And although 2020 didn’t quite go exactly as planned, Pantone has chosen two colors for 2021 that represent hope for the upcoming year.
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I think this is cool but honestly does not have any kind of guaranteed result obviously because you can’t decide someone’s future through assigning them different colors and if you could the world would be a much simpler place. The only accurate color depective of last year was the fact that is was blue because #Biden, but other than that I cannot say that 2020 was “instilling, calm, confidence, and a connection”. I’m sure what to expect for 2021, I just hope for better? I really feel like it is a difficult task for the world to become any worse than it is currently, so I’d optimistically choose to believe that 2021 will be better. It won’t be great, it won’t be safe, it won’t be fun, it won’t be happy, and it sure as hell will not be easy. But I feel like only good things can come from now, as all the bad has (hopefully) been washed away with a year of heartache and misery.
Pantone's Color of the Year is something I recognized with passing acknowledgement, as it comes up on my media feeds a few times then disappears until the next year, so this is my first time reading a bit more about the colors and honestly...I'm really disappointed in the reasoning. This whole article reads like someone trying to explain a quote they randomly found on a page for an essay they are doing last minute, especially for the Ultimate Gray. I don't know a single person who looks at the color gray and goes: yea sure that's motivational. From the image I thought the gray was going to be the shadow, and would have preferred to read that than whatever that whole section was. I also think that choosing a yellow falls into that stereotypical yellow is a cheerful color and wasn't really buying that explanation either. I mean, colors don't really mean anything in the grand scheme of events, not like economics or other year end things, but I think they could have chosen differently, or chosen better reasons.
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