The Dual Nature of Colour in its Purest Form or Harnessing the Power of Colour to Create a Shared Experience

In football, colour is never incidental. It is foundational. Colours define teams, but they also define emotion. They create belonging, but also opposition. Football offers a rare clarity in how visual identity systems are constructed, maintained, and evolved over time, demonstrating that when colour is embedded within systems of meaning, ritual, and community, it transcends aesthetics, carrying culture, memory, and identity across time and scale.

Features

• Softcover seasonal colour futures book highlighting critical colour direction across design.
• Detachable printed colour cards for each of the 6 featured trend themes.

Colours

• Global perspective highlights critical colour happenings across all areas of design.
• Football: Context + (6) directional trend themes including key colour influences inspired by conversations with artists and creatives whose practices orbit football, culture, identity, and form
• Seasonal colour overview for Autumn / Winter 2027 / 2028 showcasing colour application and harmonies.
• Essential seasonal colour messages showcasing topline trend drivers and material, finish and product application for each of the (6) key colour statements.
• The relationship between colour and a brand’s visual identity
• An in-depth look into the deep-rooted relationship between colour and sport.
• City Colourscapes: the exploration of global cities through the lens of colour.
• All colour information displayed using the PANTONE FASHION, HOME + INTERIORS colour language.

A Living Colour Dialogue Between Past, Present, and Future

Colour is one of design’s most immediate and enduring languages, shaping perception, emotion, and memory. In design, colour becomes both language and Legacy, translating feeling into form and anchoring ideas in the sensory world. It expresses mood, signals change, captures the shifting light of an era and dares to define what’s next.  Through colour, we remember not only what something looked like, but how it made us feel, the emotional imprint that turns design into memory, memory into Legacy. VIEWPOINT COLOUR delves into the emotional, cultural, and psychological dimensions of colour. A guide to where colour is headed and why it matters, VIEWPOINT COLOUR is a carefully curated blend of inspiring features focusing on artists and innovators who are pushing the boundaries

Modern Magic: Transforming the Familiar into Sources of Wonder

Magic, the quiet pulse between what is known and what is imagined. Our lighter than expected Autumn / Winter 2027 / 2028 colour palette offers a modern and magical twist on design. Extremes are out, the middle ground is in, as softer tones filled with sophistication and magical complexity from oatmeal, blush, and sage to cloud grey and sky blue, blend with muted mid-tones as well as pomegranate reds, smoky grapes, and earthy browns to capture the lightness, comfort, and balance consumers crave to counter their fast-paced lifestyles and constant overstimulation.

Features

• Hard cover trend forecast book with metal-bound edges
• Printed colour forecast highlighting forecasted seasonal shades
• Printed portable colour card highlighting seasonal colour direction by colour family
• Printed portable colour card grouping seasonal colour direction by trend theme
• Detachable printed colour swatches for each trend theme
• 64 1” x 4” Pantone Fashion, Home + Interiors cotton swatches
• Chip drive containing imagery and mood music for each of the trend themes
• Poster displaying visual overview of each of the 8 trend palettes

Colours

• Lifestyle trend forecast providing overarching look at colour across menswear, womenswear, activewear, cosmetics, interior, industrial and multi-media design.
• Seasonal forecast theme is supported by eight colour palettes and 64 key trend colours
• Each palette spotlights four key colours as the merchandising base and the seasonal constants
• Colour harmonies presented in each palette provide numerous suggested colour combinations
• Each colour trend palette is further supported by a trend story, visual inspiration, colour, surface, and finish direction, and material and product application
• Final edit highlights key seasonal must-haves, fashion, and accent colours
• USB stick contains complete catalogue of every visual image
• 5-minute specially commissioned film matches the imagery of each of the different trend themes to music
• Poster highlights colours featured in each of the 8 trend forecast palettes 

Application

• Enables you to begin your seasonal colour planning with the globally recognized PANTONE FASHION, HOME + INTERIORS colour language
• Each trend theme contains the supporting trend story, visual inspiration, colour/surface direction, and material and product application giving you all the ingredients you need to illustrate and support your colour selections
• Eight core colour palettes serve as the foundation to the seasonal colour story, with supporting colours allowing you to develop, transform, and personalize your seasonal colour stories
• For increased utility, each forecasted palette highlights the four core colours that serve as the foundation to the trend, one to two supplementary palettes in support of the core colour palette story, and two to four colour harmony pages presenting colours in different combinations, including colour usage proportions.
• Imagery on USB stick can be used internally to create mood and storyboards to support colour choices
• Film further supports trend theme helping to solidify colour and trend selections
• Colours grouped by colour family and colour themes on portable cards provide enhanced mobility
• Poster featuring visual colour overview supported by inspiration enables viewing of seasonal forecast at a glance

The Influence of Color on Emotion, Cognitive Process and Creativity

Mind: Blending the Balanced and Bold For a Mind-Bending Future

The PANTONEVIEW Colour Planner Spring / Summer 2026 color trend forecast offers seasonal inspiration, key color directives, suggested color harmonies plus material and product application across menswear, womenswear, activewear, cosmetics, interior, industrial and multi-media design 24 months ahead of the season.

Just as our mind incorporates both the emotional right and analytical left brains, our mind-oriented, brainstorming color palettes for Spring / Summer 2026 gives us a very new way of putting colors together. A balanced and sensible range of color working in tandem with vibrant, stimulating statement making shades leads to mind-bending off-beat color stories. Likewise a feeling of lingering nostalgia contrasted by futuristic hues taps into the boundless potential of the inspired mind, serving as an open invitation to be courageous with color.

Exploring the interconnectedness between color in fashion, art, and design and humankind

In ARISE we explore ways in which design, fashion, art, and other creative forms reflect on the human condition. Color plays a significant role during this journey, speaking to us through memory and constantly influencing our feelings. Deeply colored browns and greens underline our need for roots and a human connection with nature while sumptuous shades of teal and purple, vibrant emeralds and maroons, evoke palettes of bygone eras and centuries past. Designing for neurodiversity we look to dusted and muted hues that calm and balance while pale and vaporized pinks and blues bring a cooling touch to the future.

VIEWPOINT COLOUR reflects current and future market conditions with an approach that aims to balance the informative and insightful with the inspirational and innovative. We carefully analyze consumer behavior, socio-economic developments, cultural trends, and lifestyle; we put color and design into perspective, confirm emerging directions, monitor, and reconfirm maturing ideas to arrive at sound conclusions and color and design strategies for decision-makers in the fields of textiles, fashion, beauty, graphics, architecture, interior and industrial design.

The everlasting search for harmony filters through into every aspect of our lives including our relationships, the work we do, our social connections and the natural environment that surrounds us. Harmony in color unifies all the disparate elements of a product or design and helps ensure the right mood is being set. While the paths to harmony are many, they all center around our desire for balance and unity in our surroundings and the feeling of peace and cohesiveness it engenders. As we continue to redefine our style of living, harmony has taken on greater importance for our physical and spiritual well-being. PANTONE VIEW home + interiors 2025 provides you with directional color and design compositions from eco-inspired greens, carefree blues, earthy browns, and nurturing neutrals to cutting edge brights, utopian pastels, atmospheric purples, and elegant night shades, to help you create the visual interest and synchronized harmonious tone you are seeking.

FEATURES

• Bound 9” x 12” softcover book on heavy weight paper stock containing 7 trend palettes each supported with 10 pages of visual imagery, material and product direction, color harmonies and key trend influences and references.
• 1” x 4” individual cotton swatch standards of each of the 63 forecasted colors separated by trend palette
• Color pages highlighting key color direction by color family

COLORS

• 7 trend palettes supported by visual inspiration, written narrative, suggested color harmonies and key design references
• Pivotal design influences are spotlighted, including materiality, key reference synopsis and a summary of key colors
• Color combinations illustrate how palette colors can be mixed to create the trend mood
• Color pages displaying forecasted colors in chromatic arrangement highlight key direction by color family
• CMYK values for each of the 63 forecasted colors

APPLICATION

• Forecasted colors laid-out by color family, provide a quick color overview
• Key color combinations illustrate how palette colors can be mixed and proportioned to create the mood and is one of the great strengths of PANTONEVIEW home + interiors.
• Color, material, texture and pattern direction informs critical surface application, product development, and merchandising choices
• Forecast displayed with PANTONE Colors facilitates color planning using the PANTONE Fashion, Home + Interior color language
• CMYK print values for each forecasted color enables color matching for print applications
• Strong visual imagery elevates and aids in the creation of internal story boards and presentations

Family: A Color Story of Duality Fusing Familiarity with Surprise

The PANTONEVIEW Colour Planner Autumn/Winter 25/26 color trend forecast offers seasonal inspiration, key color directives, suggested color harmonies plus material and product application across menswear, womenswear, activewear, cosmetics, interior, industrial and multi-media design 24 months ahead of the season.

Families visually unify individuals together to create a feeling of shared belonging. This idea of a blended group of linked yet disparate elements is explored in our color palettes for Autumn/Winter 2025/2026. Merging the familiar with the new, darker, stable rooted shades are contrasted with fresh, acidic yellows, whites, and pastels, while well-loved sporty tones are unexpectedly juxtaposed with young, lively, friendly hues. Duality and duplexity, just like a family are at the roots of the Autumn/ Winter season.

Explore the inspirational nature of our relationship with the natural world

In HUMAN NATURE we explore the inspirational nature of our relationship with the natural world and the colors that merge us with the animal kingdom. We embrace the golds and browns of fake animal skins and furs, the changeant shades of mollusks, crustaceans, and beetles, and the splendid brights of terrestrial birds. AI imagines an incongruously beautiful multi-colored world where man, nature, and machine all combine in new ways to live in harmony. Celebrating and respecting diversity and bio-inclusive culture, we recognize nature as a living entity fundamental to our survival and the importance of creating a harmonious collaboration with all life on earth.

VIEWPOINT COLOUR reflects current and future market conditions with an approach that aims to balance the informative and insightful with the inspirational and innovative. We carefully analyze consumer behavior, socio-economic developments, cultural trends, and lifestyle; we put color and design into perspective, confirm emerging directions, monitor, and reconfirm maturing ideas to arrive at sound conclusions and color and design strategies for decision-makers in the fields of textiles, fashion, beauty, graphics, architecture, interior and industrial design.

A new era brings radical changes in manufacturing, sustainability, and automation.

In TRANSFORMATION, a new era brings radical changes in manufacturing, sustainability, and automation. Millennials and Gen Z are driving a whole new vibe, breaking free from traditional structures, craving experiences that bring joy. Let’s all escape the anxiety of today and embrace design that defies rules, where feeling is the new look, and color is used to deepen our connection to the world around us. The Winter 24/25 issue conveys a time for imagination, enchantment, and multiverse design that reshapes reality. Technology, especially AI, is both controversial and groundbreaking, influencing how color is developed, applied, and perceived, empowering designers, and sparking new creative frontiers. A new approach to color and design balances human ingenuity with the multiverse. Welcome to the era of TRANSFORMATION.

Edited by David Shah, VIEWPOINT COLOUR reflects current and future market conditions with an approach that aims to balance the informative and insightful with the inspirational and innovative. The content starts with the context behind each issue, then analysis of what is happening in the world of color. Current and future directional color is explored before moving on to a full presentation of the season’s palette. In the latter sections of our magazine we broaden our scope to investigate what's driving the world of art, interiors, and general design, as well as spotlighting the work of inspirational tastemakers.

Features

• 12.5” x 9.5” softcover on heavy weight paper stock
• 168 pages

Colors:

• TRANSFORMATION: With ever growing blurred lines between human and inhuman agents and a moment of environmental instability, we are re-evaluating the past, navigating the present, and building towards a new world
• COLOUR DIRECTIVES: What’s going up and what’s going down: our edit of the essential colors for the new season. The merchandising facts you need to know
• VISION ON COLOUR: Our five palettes for A/W 24/25 featuring the inspiration behind our choices, the core shades and a major breakdown of mixes and harmonies
• CITY COLOURSCAPES: A city-by-city perspective on what’s going on where in global color taste: Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Buenos Aires, Enugu, and Mumbai
• Pantone’s Journey into AI: A personal story of Pantone’s experience with AI in the selection of its Color of the Year Viva Magenta
• INTERIOR FOCUS: Modern Day Mystics: how Next-Gen re-imagining of folklore is shaping the future and a new sense of modern-day mysticism is emerging in interiors
• ARTWORLD FOCUS: Visual stories made of artificial imaginative landscapes and intricately crafted installations explore psychedelic forms and materials as a space of creativity
• DESIGNER PROFILE: We enter the mesmerizing and unapologetically avant-garde world of Elmo Mistiaen, a visionary who blurs the boundaries of fashion and technology

Application:

• Contributions by artists and designers around the globe expose a global perspective to color
• Short- and long-term color direction allows you to select your colors based on your planning cycle
• Actionable color intelligence from global color trend experts gives you confidence to make critical color choices
• Lifestyle color approach streamlines the color planning process
• Enables you to begin your color planning with PANTONE FASHION, HOME + INTERIORS colors

The PANTONEVIEW Colour Planner Spring/Summer 2025 color trend forecast offers seasonal inspiration, key color directives, suggested color harmonies plus material and product application across menswear, womenswear, activewear, cosmetics, interior, industrial and multi-media design 24 months ahead of the season.

For Spring/Summer 2025 we take on a new consciousness embodied in symbiotic relationships between humanity, fauna, and the planet, alliances further enabled through our relationship with Generative AI. AI amplifies our ability to tackle complex challenges and imagine a new way of living with the world around us. As we seek refuge and connectiveness in nature, we discover that the most essential things are in fact, the most primal ones. Colors for Spring/Summer 2025 capture this awareness, from essential marbled whites and grays to savannah greens and browns, to complementary watery, shimmery and sky like blues. Palettes span from the most classic neutrals to the most innovative of backlit brights, reflecting an essential bond between humans, animals, and fauna. This alliance is cherished as we sync with AI, creating a harmonious balance between technology and nature.

Features

• Hardcover trend forecast book with metal-bound edges
• Printed color forecast highlighting forecasted seasonal shades
• A printed portable color card highlighting seasonal color direction by color family
• Printed portable color card grouping seasonal color direction by trend theme
• Detachable printed color swatches for each trend theme
• 64 1” x 4” Pantone Fashion, Home + Interiors cotton swatches
• Chip drive containing imagery and mood music for each of the trend themes
• Poster displaying a visual overview of each of the 7 trend palettes

Colors

• Lifestyle trend forecast provides an overarching look at color across menswear, womenswear, activewear, cosmetics, interior, industry, and multi-media design.
• The seasonal forecast theme is supported by eight color palettes and 56 key trend colors
• Each palette spotlights four key colors as the merchandising base and the seasonal constants
• Color harmonies presented in each palette provide numerous suggested color combinations
• Each color trend palette is further supported by a trend story, visual inspiration, color, surface, and finish direction, and material and product application
• Summary of seasonal color direction by family
• Final edit highlights key seasonal must-haves, fashion, and accent colors
• USB stick contains a complete catalog of every visual image
• The 5-minute specially commissioned film matches the imagery of each of the different trend themes to music
• The poster highlights colors featured in each of the 8 trend forecast palettes

Applicaton

• Enables you to begin your seasonal color planning with the globally recognized Pantone Fashion, Home + Interiors color language
• Each trend theme contains the supporting trend story, visual inspiration, color/surface direction, and material and product application giving you all the ingredients you need to illustrate and support your color selections
• Seven core color palettes serve as the foundation to the seasonal color story, with supporting colors allowing you to develop, transform, and personalize your seasonal color stories
• For increased utility, each forecasted palette highlights the four core colors that serve as the foundation to the trend, one to two supplementary palettes in support of the core color palette story, and two to four color harmony pages presenting colors in different combinations, including color usage proportions.
• The imagery on the USB stick can be used internally to create mood and storyboards to support color choices
• The film further supports trend theme helping to solidify color and trend selections
• Colors grouped by color family and color themes on portable cards provide enhanced mobility
• Poster featuring visual color overview supported by inspiration enables viewing of seasonal forecast at a glance