Pantone has just announced its new 2022 Color of the Year, which is…Very Peri!

All Middlebury students are attractive. It's unnerving.

DL Elder Gays sport it too. They know it as Very Varicose Vein.

Pantone never quite gets it right. Color trends are mainly represented via interiors now.

It was a color associated wih Norman Bates' mother in 'Psycho' (1960).

The professional colour predictor business has become a joke. Remember two years ago when they tried to make Dusty Pink a happening thing again? Yeah, lots of dusty pink shit appeared in the shops, and a few losers painted their rooms dusty pink for the shelter mags, and it all died in the arse.

Periwinkle was very in back in the mid 1980s, though I was growing up in the Midwest at the time and noticed a lot of the periwinkle clothing was mixed in with lavender shades, as if they matched, but they didn't. Dad had a striking mohair blend golf cardigan in solid periwinkle in the 1980s, very much a "dad" or "grandpa" style and looked almost like a vintage early-60s cardigan because it wasn't the fuzzy kind (like Kurt Cobain famously wore). Always really liked the color, but it never took off.

R5, do you mean Millennial Pink? That was weird when they made it the color of the year, because its time had already come and gone by 2016 on social media and with girls' fashions, I have no idea what they were thinking. But until recently you would still see articles saying Millennial Pink "will never die" and it just seems very out of touch.

Dear God, that color looks awful. The mental image of it being used on cars, clothes, walls, furniture, and accessories gives me a migraine.

Well don't get too upset, because the color you see on everything will probably still be gray. Or, for a radical change, charcoal.

Pretty color for a cashmere sweater or muffler. Maybe a bed throw amid a sea of gray.

Periwinkle is a color that looks good on everybody. I’m going to stock up.

Periwinkle is my favorite color. I had my living room in 2 different apartments painted a shade of periwinkle. It's a color that looks good with every other color.

I knew a girl whose Villager or Ladybug color was Periwinkle. It went well with cream and coral accent stripes. Later I had a friend who painted his living room this color, and you could see a fuschia undertone if you sat in the room long enough. He had a four-foot tall cactus as accent color, and it was a trip as a result to visit him.

Fiesta did a color they called Periwinkle in the '80s, but it was completely light blue, verging on gray instead of purple. I never liked it.

R11 I disagree. I think it looks unflattering next to the majority of lighter skin tones. RIP Prince.

God, I've been waiting for this. Fingernails chewed to NUBS!

In regard to OP's comment: Black people look good in many, many colors white people should avoid. This is a perfect example. I wouldn't put this on my walls either.

No thanks, too much red

Perfect for the grandmother of the bride or groom. Periwinkle has a tendency to fade/discolor with time. I find the Pantone periwinkle a bit too purple. I'd wear it in cashmere or Shetland wool sweater, however.

All the suicidal Romantic Poets wore periwinkle.

This is the year for me! As you well know, my Royal Doulton is hand-painted in periwinkle.

That color in OP's link looks not far off from mid-violet. More purple than blue. I love it. It reminds me of the "Friends" apartment.

I like anything in a blue shade...love blue. I think the white on white trend of interiors (especially in the US) will still be around. I like to look at real estate online, and most homes have friggin' white walls (though not bad, brings in light), with white furniture. I like color. I like English cottage homes best...wallpaper, patterns, not afraid of color and mixing it up.

Hate it.

**LOVE** IT !!!

[quote] All Middlebury students are attractive. It's unnerving.

Oooohhh... flattery will get you EVERYWHERE!

That's not Peri-Blue. that's grey-blue

I paid 100s of dollars for Pantone swatches 20 years ago. I pilfered Pantone swatches 15 years ago.

I hate supercilious, expensive Pantone.

I'm glad they're redundant and we can't jJust get it all free on the internet.

R19 Predictive of the "27 club." I wonder if you may know the title of a poem read in college that I have not been able to locate since. The textbook displayed the image above or one just like it. My recollection is it was a romantic era ode to the writer's case of the plague. I recollect it being darkly humorous with affectionate mentions of his "ashen knobs" (i.e., infected lymph nodes) that opened up periodically, "issuing" "black coins" (whatever the contents of the infected lymph nodes contained, the matter was black and disk-like). Wish I could find that darned thing.

The same as Morning Glory.

I adore it!

R29 Well, in the 1700s when he died it must have been the “17 club,” is it possible that the poem was by him, he was fascinated with the Medieval period, so using the painting to illustrate would make sense? Anyways you might want to submit your enquiry here online with as much information as you can give. Also, at present there is a small version of this painting currently on view in a special exhibition in Pittsburgh. The full sized original is in the Tate Britain.

[quote] "27 club."

Virginia and Leonard Woolf occasionally met up with 'The Slade Girls' at the 1917 Club.

R29 That sounds grotesque

I think Pantone should forget about color & just stick to shampoo.

R32 Thanks for the link. I will give it a try.

Their Christmas loaf is always dry. And who bakes pickles into a cake?

I disagree that periwinkle only looks good on dark skin, I used to wear periwinkle shirts and polos in the 80s, when I could find them.

Now what Panetone is pushing is a periwinkle version of blue-gray, which will indeed look stunning on dark skin. But I used to wear lighter, clearer shades of periwinkle with no gray in them, and the colors were extremely flattering to my fair hair, and pale skin with a blue undertone.

A lighter periwinkle that has a gray undertone would look really nice with fair hair and pale skin.

Most of the muted periwinkles on this chart would look good with fair skin.

It's a flattering color for a lot of people, I hope we start seeing clothing that color soon. But I think periwinkles mostly suit people whose skin color is at the lighter or darker ends of the human spectrum, I don't think it looks all that good on people with golden or golden-brown skin.

But I don't like Periwinkle as an interior color, the more muted shades look depressing on walls, and the brighter shades look twee.

It’s one of my favorite colors if not the favorite. But I would never use it in interiors.

I would totally enjoy this color for appliance in the kitchen and would find it an uplifting and dynamic color for that environment and I don’t usually go towards blue for much of anything.

I think as pops of color in interiors would be nice....a chair, pillows, throws, etc.

Gworl

I like some of the colors they've choosen enough, though not too many work in excess, but do work as accents. I like the idea of 2 complimentary colors, but it's something they've done only twice. ​

Past decade: 2012: tangerine tango 13: emerald 14: radiant orchid 15: marsala 16: rose quartz and serenity (dusty pink and light gray) 17: greenery 18: ultra violet 19: living coral 20: classic blue 21: ultimate gray and illuminating (yellow) 22: periwinkle

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I remember when they chose beige, I mean "Sand Dollar," as the color of the year in 2006. I've never seen people get so angry about beige!

[quote]complimentary colors

Oh, dear.

This is one of my favorite colors but I would never decorate my home in periwinkle because it’s to harsh a color for interior walls and painting your homes exterior this color would instantly remind me of grimace.

I’m a little confused by the Pantone executive describing it as “the happiest, warmest blue”.

I’m not a color expert, but to me it’s blue with a lot of red violet in it, but none of the yellow/gold tones that make blues “warm” (chinese blue, teal, turquoise).

I agree with the poster above who says it reminds them of Monica’s apartment in Friends.

"Past decade: 2012: tangerine tango 13: emerald 14: radiant orchid 15: marsala 16: rose quartz and serenity (dusty pink and light gray) 17: greenery 18: ultra violet 19: living coral 20: classic blue 21: ultimate gray and illuminating (yellow) 22: periwinkle"

And everything for sale out there is still gray or beige.

R46 Sand Dollar ? ?

How is periwinkle harsh?? I wouldn’t paint my walls that color, prefer a pale blue-violet with more cool gray in it but it’s fine for clothing. It’s just a pastel.

I used to have a bedroom that where 2 walls were dark forest green and the other 2 were purple. It came that way and I got used to it and never bothered to re-paint. I like this blue-purple better than mine.

[quote] it all died in the arse.

Yes! In the arse it did!

I love periwinkle tones for clothing, but I HATE it as an interior color.

Too cool, too overwhelming.

Warm blues are a much better interior color, although of course too much warm blue is too much. You have to temper it with some warmer accents.

We don't like it.

I wear “Clean Kween”.

It’s a beautiful color for fabrics with texture—wool, mohair, linen, raw silk, even terrycloth guest towels. I’d only use a very pastel version for interiors.

Tribute to Very Peri:

so, 2022 is going to look like an aging arsehole?

Too effeminate.

[quote] That Middlebury young lady was effortlessly classy and elegant the way only women from Ivy League and upper tier colleges were.

I'm an Upper Richmond Girls' School girl!

Upper Richmond is VERY top-drawer!

Have Mamie Gummer and Chelsie Manning given their approval of peri?

My favorite Crayola crayon was the Periwinkle one. This was back in 1965.

R65 And you’ve never wavered since?

Bad people are going to use this as an excuse to bring back cornflower blue.

We're less than two years away from geese with ribbons, sister wives, and polyester turtleneck sweaters highlighting male moobs.

I knew the color as a child from the Crayola box and also from an episode of "I Love Lucy" where Lucy talks of wanting a periwinkle blue Cadillac.

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