Every Color of the Year, by season
2026PantoneCloud Dancer
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Deep Winter +5
2026DuluxFree Groove
Light Summer
2026DuluxMellow Flow
Cool Winter, Light Summer, Cool Summer +1
2026DuluxSlow Swing
Deep Winter, Light Summer
2026Benjamin MooreSilhouette
Bright Winter
2026Sherwin‑WilliamsUniversal Khaki
Light Spring, Cool Summer, Soft Autumn
2026BehrHidden Gem
Soft Autumn
2025PantoneMocha Mousse
Soft Autumn
2025DuluxTrue Joy
Bright Spring, Warm Spring
2025Benjamin MooreCinnamon Slate
Light Summer, Soft Summer, Soft Autumn
2025Sherwin‑WilliamsGrounded
Warm Spring, Soft Autumn, Warm Autumn
2025Sherwin‑WilliamsSunbleached
Light Spring, Light Summer, Cool Summer +3
2025Sherwin‑WilliamsChartreuse
Warm Spring, Light Spring
2025Sherwin‑WilliamsRain Cloud
Cool Winter, Cool Summer, Soft Summer
2025Sherwin‑WilliamsClove
Soft Autumn, Warm Autumn, Deep Autumn
2025Sherwin‑WilliamsMalabar
Light Spring, Cool Summer, Soft Autumn
2025Sherwin‑WilliamsBosc Pear
Bright Spring, Warm Spring, Soft Autumn +1
2025Sherwin‑WilliamsWhite Snow
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Deep Winter +5
2025Sherwin‑WilliamsMauve Finery
Light Summer, Cool Summer, Soft Summer
2025BehrRumors
Cool Winter, Deep Winter
2024PantonePeach Fuzz
Warm Spring, Light Spring, Soft Autumn
2024DuluxSweet Embrace
Light Spring, Light Summer, Soft Summer
2024Benjamin MooreBlue Nova
Light Summer
2024Sherwin‑WilliamsUpward
Cool Winter, Cool Summer, Soft Summer
2024BehrCracked Pepper
Soft Summer, Deep Autumn
2023PantoneViva Magenta
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Deep Winter
2023DuluxWild Wonder
Light Spring
2023Benjamin MooreRaspberry Blush
Bright Winter, Warm Spring, Soft Autumn +1
2023Sherwin‑WilliamsRedend Point
Soft Autumn, Warm Autumn
2023BehrBlank Canvas
Bright Spring, Warm Spring, Light Spring +5
2022PantoneVery Peri
Nobody wears this well. Genuinely.
2022DuluxBright Skies
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Deep Winter +3
2022Benjamin MooreOctober Mist
Light Spring, Light Summer, Cool Summer +1
2022Sherwin‑WilliamsEvergreen Fog
Soft Summer, Soft Autumn
2022BehrBreezeway
Light Summer, Soft Summer
2021PantoneUltimate Gray
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Soft Summer
2021PantoneIlluminating
Warm Spring, Light Spring
2021DuluxBrave Ground
Light Summer, Cool Summer, Soft Summer +1
2021Benjamin MooreAegean Teal
Light Summer, Soft Autumn
2021Sherwin‑WilliamsUrbane Bronze
Nobody wears this well. Genuinely.
2021BehrCanyon Dusk
Light Spring, Soft Autumn
2020PantoneClassic Blue
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Deep Winter +1
2020DuluxTranquil Dawn
Light Spring, Light Summer, Cool Summer +1
2020Benjamin MooreFirst Light
Bright Spring, Light Spring, Light Summer +2
2020Sherwin‑WilliamsNaval
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Deep Autumn
2020BehrBack to Nature
Light Summer, Soft Summer, Soft Autumn
2019PantoneLiving Coral
Bright Spring, Warm Spring
2019DuluxSpiced Honey
Warm Spring, Soft Autumn, Warm Autumn
2019Benjamin MooreMetropolitan
Light Spring, Light Summer, Soft Summer
2019Sherwin‑WilliamsCavern Clay
Soft Autumn, Warm Autumn
2019BehrBlueprint
Light Summer, Soft Summer
2018PantoneUltra Violet
Cool Winter, Cool Summer
2018DuluxHeart Wood
Bright Winter, Light Summer, Soft Summer +1
2018Benjamin MooreCaliente
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Deep Winter +2
2018Sherwin‑WilliamsOceanside
Cool Winter, Deep Winter, Warm Autumn
2018BehrIn The Moment
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Soft Summer
2017PantoneGreenery
Bright Spring, Warm Spring
2017DuluxDenim Drift
Bright Winter, Cool Summer, Soft Summer +1
2017Benjamin MooreShadow
Cool Summer, Soft Summer
2017Sherwin‑WilliamsPoised Taupe
Soft Autumn
2016PantoneRose Quartz
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Deep Winter +2
2016PantoneSerenity
Light Summer
2016DuluxCherished Gold
Bright Spring, Warm Spring, Light Spring +2
2016Benjamin MooreSimply White
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Deep Winter +5
2016Sherwin‑WilliamsAlabaster
Bright Spring, Light Spring, Light Summer +2
2015PantoneMarsala
Soft Autumn
2015DuluxCopper Blush
Warm Spring, Light Spring, Soft Autumn
2015Benjamin MooreGuilford Green
Light Summer, Soft Summer, Soft Autumn
2015Sherwin‑WilliamsCoral Reef
Warm Spring, Soft Autumn
2014PantoneRadiant Orchid
Nobody wears this well. Genuinely.
2014DuluxSea Urchin
Bright Spring, Warm Spring, Light Summer
2014Benjamin MooreBreath of Fresh Air
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Deep Winter +2
2014Sherwin‑WilliamsExclusive Plum
Light Summer, Cool Summer, Soft Summer +1
2013PantoneEmerald
Bright Winter, Bright Spring
2013DuluxIndigo Night
Light Summer
2013Sherwin‑WilliamsAloe
Light Spring, Light Summer, Soft Summer
2012PantoneTangerine Tango
Bright Spring, Warm Spring, Warm Autumn
2012Sherwin‑WilliamsArgyle
Soft Autumn
2011PantoneHoneysuckle
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Bright Spring +1
2011Sherwin‑WilliamsIndigo Batik
Light Summer
2010PantoneTurquoise
Bright Spring, Warm Spring
2009PantoneMimosa
Bright Spring, Warm Spring
2008PantoneBlue Iris
Light Summer
2007PantoneChili Pepper
Bright Winter
2006PantoneSand Dollar
Light Spring, Light Summer, Cool Summer +2
2005PantoneBlue Turquoise
Bright Spring, Warm Spring, Light Spring +1
2004PantoneTigerlily
Bright Spring, Warm Spring
2003PantoneAqua Sky
Bright Spring, Warm Spring, Light Spring
2002PantoneTrue Red
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Deep Winter
2001PantoneFuchsia Rose
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Light Summer
2000PantoneCerulean
Light Spring, Light Summer, Cool Summer +1
1990ssiOsiHunter Green
Cool Winter, Deep Winter, Soft Autumn +2
1990ssiOsiBurgundy
Cool Winter, Deep Winter
1990ssiOsiBeige
Light Spring, Light Summer, Cool Summer +1
1990ssiOsiNavy
Cool Winter, Deep Winter
1990ssiOsiTerracotta
Soft Autumn, Warm Autumn, Deep Autumn
1990ssiOsiTaupe
Cool Summer, Soft Summer, Soft Autumn
1980ssiOsiMauve
Light Summer, Soft Summer, Soft Autumn
1980ssiOsiTeal
Cool Winter, Soft Autumn, Warm Autumn
1980ssiOsiDusty Blue
Cool Winter, Light Spring, Light Summer +2
1980ssiOsiPeach
Warm Spring, Light Spring, Soft Autumn
1980ssiOsiSeafoam
Light Spring, Light Summer, Soft Summer
1980ssiOsiSoft Grey
Light Summer, Cool Summer, Soft Summer
1970ssiOsiAvocado
Soft Autumn, Warm Autumn
1970ssiOsiHarvest Gold
Bright Spring, Warm Spring, Warm Autumn
1970ssiOsiBurnt Orange
Warm Autumn, Deep Autumn
1970ssiOsiChocolate Brown
Soft Autumn, Warm Autumn, Deep Autumn
1970ssiOsiRust
Soft Autumn, Warm Autumn, Deep Autumn
1970ssiOsiOlive
Warm Autumn
1960ssiOsiTangerine
Bright Spring, Warm Autumn
1960ssiOsiHot Pink
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Bright Spring +1
1960ssiOsiPurple
Bright Winter
1960ssiOsiLime
Bright Spring, Warm Spring
1960ssiOsiMustard
Bright Spring, Warm Spring, Warm Autumn
1960ssiOsiTeal Blue
Cool Winter, Deep Winter, Warm Autumn
1950ssiOsiPastel Pink
Bright Winter, Light Spring, Light Summer
1950ssiOsiMint Green
Light Spring, Light Summer, Soft Summer
1950ssiOsiTurquoise
Bright Spring, Warm Spring, Light Spring +1
1950ssiOsiButter Yellow
Warm Spring, Light Spring
1950ssiOsiPowder Blue
Light Spring, Light Summer, Cool Summer +1
1950ssiOsiDiner Red
Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Deep Winter
Every December the color coronations roll in – Pantone first, then every paint brand in the group chat – and every year the same question goes unanswered: cute, but can I wear it? Here are five lists back to 2000, judged against your season's actual palette. Which picks are genuinely yours, which work as an accent away from your face, and which stay on the mood board where they belong. A score would just be a vibe with decimals, so you get a verdict and the reason instead.
Swatches are approximate on-screen renderings – several of the original colors sit outside what a screen can show at all. Selections by Pantone (running since 2000), Dulux/AkzoNobel (since 2004; listed here from the named era), Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams and Behr, each the source of its own list; siOsi is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. The verdicts are our own editorial reading, measured against the same twelve season palettes used across these guides.
How the verdicts work
Each pick is measured against the sixteen swatches of your season's palette – the same palettes rendered on every guide here. Close enough and it's yours. A bit further and it's an accent: bags, shoes, trousers, anything that isn't framing your face. Past that, we say so, and we name the axis that pushed it out – too warm, too cool, too muted, too bright, too light or too deep.
Two things we deliberately don't do. No match percentages, because the honest number underneath is a color-space distance and dressing it up as "73%" implies precision nobody has. And no special treatment for whatever the current year's color is – the question worth answering isn't "can you wear this year's pick", it's which of the whole list belongs on you.
The distribution is honestly uneven, and it gossips about the brands. Pantone skews bright, clear and blue-leaning – the springs and winters collect its picks by the handful, while Deep Autumn has never once been chosen in 27 years. The paint brands lean the other way: earthy, muted, wall-friendly, which is where the deep and soft seasons finally get theirs. Walls get to be Deep Autumn. Pantone, apparently, does not.
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Questions people actually ask
- How do you decide whether a color "is mine"?
- We measure the distance between each Color of the Year and the sixteen swatches of your season's palette in CIELAB color space – the same palettes our guides render. Close enough sits in your palette; further out works as an accent away from the face; past that we say not yours, and name the axis that pushed it out: temperature, depth or how muted it is.
- Why is there no percentage or match score?
- Because the underlying figure is a distance in color space, and a percentage would invite reading 71% versus 74% as meaningful when it isn't. You get three honest buckets and one honest number – how many of the picks are yours – because a count is not a score.
- Why do the whites and greys get judged differently?
- Off-whites and greys sit near every palette by raw distance, which would make them everyone's color and tell you nothing. So for near-neutrals we judge on the two things that actually vary: how light they are, and which way they lean. That lean is measurable – the 2026 pick reads warm and creamy rather than truly neutral, whatever the announcement says.
- What if almost none of them are mine?
- Then that's your result, and it's a real one. Pantone's picks skew bright and clear, so the deep, muted seasons match very few – Deep Autumn has never matched a single Pantone pick. Try the paint brands' lists, which run earthier and quieter, or just trust your own palette: it has sixteen colors that beat every entry here, and the whole point of knowing your season is that you stop needing a trend list to pick well.
- Why do the paint-brand lists start in different years?
- Because the programmes did. Pantone's runs from 2000, Sherwin-Williams counts its own lineage from 2011, Benjamin Moore's continuously documented run starts in 2014, and Behr called its 2018 pick their first ever. Dulux actually began in 2004, but the early picks were never given marketing names, so we list the named era from 2013. Where a year had no verifiable official name, we leave it out rather than guess.
- Where do the decade palettes come from?
- They're our own editorial read – no official Color of the Year existed before 2000, and the only pre-2000 resolution anyone publishes is the decade. We picked the six shades that genuinely defined each one, from 1950s pastel kitchens to 1990s hunter green, and ran them through the same measurement as everything else. The picks are arguable; the verdicts aren't.