Pantone Announces 2021 Colors of the Year

Pantone Announces 2021 Colors of the Year

Pantone Announces 2021 Colors of the Year.

The Pantone Color Institute named not one, but two colors of the year: Ultimate Gray and Illuminating, a vibrant yellow.

The annual selection is meant to forecast what colors will best reflect the upcoming year.

It's a combination that speaks to the resilience, the optimism and hope and positivity .., Pantone Color Institute’s Laurie Pressman, via CNN.

... that we need, as we reset, renew, reimagine and reinvent, Pantone Color Institute’s Laurie Pressman, via CNN.

Ultimate Gray is the first achromatic color to ever be chosen.

This is also the second time two colors have been selected, after 2016’s gradient combination of Rose Quartz and Serenity