2022 colors of the year

By Becky Hemmann The Surveyor

Every year the companies who bring color to the spaces we live and work in present us with their color of the year. 2023 colors are more vivid and striking than last year. After all, after COVID, we are all out and about more and feeling brighter. Research in color psychology suggests that certain colors bring out psychological reactions that affect emotions and mood. It’s an interesting subject as the response to a certain color can be related to several things including how intense the shade is as well as the byproduct of cultural influences and your own experiences. This means the colors we choose can influence how we feel in a space. If your spaces need an update you might consider some of the following colors. When you walk into your home it should make you feel happy to be there!

Feng Shui

The lucky color for 2023 is forest green, based on the wood element that represents a balance with water; it’s the perfect hue for a year that promises hope and prosperity. In Feng Shui, green represents compassion, flexibility, healing, and growth it’s a color based on nature and can connect the energy of the trees, grass, and nature to where it is placed. Green is also a cool color, bringing refreshing feelings and indulging a healthy state of mind.

Benjamin Moore

“People are ready to bring color back into the home, taking a step outside their color comfort zones,” said Andrea Magno, Color Marketing & Development Director at Benjamin Moore. “Raspberry Blush 2008-30 and the Color Trends 2023 palette empower the use of statement colors that deliver delight and personality while transforming rooms for incredible results.”

Better Homes & Gardens

If you could capture that golden hour glow around sunset when the clouds are kissed with a blushy coral color, what would you do with it? Maybe you’d treasure it within a custom art project or paint your bedroom walls with it. This late-day sunny shade inspired the Better Homes & Gardens 2023 Color of the Year, Canyon Ridge. A subtle spin on terra-cotta, it skews more sunbaked clay than cayenne pepper for a near-neutral ideal on walls.

Sherwin Williams edend Point SW 81, part of Sherwin-Williams’s 2 23 Colormix Forecast, is a warm, modern mauve that conjures a timeless elegance and is brimming with romance, without being extravagantly showy And it just might be the calming color hug we need going into next year. “It’s if beige could blush,” says Sue Wadden, the color marketing director at Sherwin-Williams. “It’s a pink-undertone neutral that is warm and earthy, and it has a certain softness and soothing quality to it that is really unique.”

Pantone

Pantone’s Color of the Year, Viva Magenta 18-1750, vibrates with vim and vigor. It is a shade rooted in nature descending from the red family and expressive of a new signal of strength. Viva Magenta is brave and fearless, and a pulsating color whose exuberance promotes a joyous and optimistic celebration, writing a new narrative.

This year’s Color of the Year is powerful and empowering. It is a new animated red that revels in pure joy, encouraging experimentation and self-expression without restraint, an electrifying, and a boundaryless shade that is manifesting as a stand-out statement. Viva Magenta welcomes anyone and everyone with the same verve for life and a rebellious spirit. It is a color that is audacious, full of wit and inclusive of all.