The Pantone Colour of the Year 2024 is… Peach Fuzz. This velvety gentle colour sits between pink and orange, and has been carefully chosen by the Pantone team as representative of the mood for 2024. They research trends and collect stories from society, which they then crystallise into a colour that capitalises our sentiment for the coming year. Let’s take a closer look at the thoughts behind this choice and how you bring the calming colour of Peach Fuzz into your interior design.
A Caring, Calm, and Cosy Colour
Pantone have been running the Colour of the Year programme for 25 years now. They use the language of colour and how colour can tell a story to try and summarise the mood for the next year. Looking at our concept of lifestyle and the stresses and turmoil in many aspects of our lives, the colour of the year for 2024 Peach Fuzz (Pantone 13-1023) feels like an antidote to that. Pantone describe the colour as:
“A cozy and comforting hue nurturing compassion and heartfelt kindness”
Pantone.com
The Pantone Colour of the Year 2024 is a warm, soft, and tactile colour. It’s reassuring and cosy, full of caring and kindness. Peach Fuzz is the expression of what we’ve been missing from our lives. A reminder to focus on our health and wellbeing, both mentally and physically. To take care of ourselves and each other. Appreciate moments together, big and small. Or take a moment for yourself. Highlighting the need we have for nurturing and a desire for a more peaceful future.
How to Use Pantone Peach Fuzz
Peach Fuzz has a gentle lightness that offers a calming and welcoming element to a space. There is a vintage vibe that has been refashioned with contemporary and quietly sophisticated touch.
There are numerous ways you can bring Peach Fuzz into your interior design at home or in your business. From painting your walls or choosing wallpaper with the colour for a big impact, to more subtle additions such as floral display, new cushions, or decorative accessories.
As a tactile colour, Peach Fuzz would work well with textures such as velvets, suede, quilted, fluffy or furry materials. Enhance it’s warmth and cosiness with soft furnishings and smooth lines.
Here at Inspirations, we love what can be achieved with artificial flowers. Using the Pantone Colour of the Year 2024 in your bouquets and arrangements would be a simple and effective way to enjoy this warm and soft colour and bring a feeling of caring and kindness into a space.
What Colours Does it Work With?
Peach Fuzz can work well with soft neutral colours such as creams, whites, soft pinks, browns, and beiges. If you are looking for something bolder, you could try pairing it with mustard yellows, lavenders, or greys too. The Pantone Colour of the Year 2024 lends itself to a light and airy style interior or a clean beachy look. It also teams nicely with natural materials such as jute, wicker, bamboo, and grasses.
Using a touch of green in the form of indoor plants and trees adds a nice accent colour for Peach Fuzz and gives the space a lift and freshness.
Whichever way you decide to use Peach Fuzz, the sentiment behind the Pantone Colour of the Year 2024 is a heartfelt one.
In seeking a hue that echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection, we chose a colour radiant with warmth and modern elegance. A shade that resonates with compassion, offers a tactile embrace, and effortlessly bridges the youthful with the timeless.
Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director, Pantone Color Institute