The warm shade of peach will be seen everywhere next year.
Pantone, the company that knows everything there is to know about every color, announced Thursday that Peach Fuzz is its color of the year for 2024, The Washington Post reported.
The official name of Peach Fuzz is “PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz” and is a “muted mix of pink and orange,” the newspaper reported.
Pantone said the color “brings belonging, inspires recalibration, and an opportunity for nurturing,” adding “we can find peace from within, impacting our wellbeing.”
This is the 25th anniversary of Pantone selecting a color — or in the case of 2021 and 2016, colors — that will represent the upcoming year.
Recent selections, such as Viva Magenta, have been bright and showy. For 2024, it appears Peach Fuzz is bringing a different feeling, one of warmth, compassion and coziness that “enriches the soul,” Pantone Color Institute vice president Laurie Pressman said in a news release, according to the Post.
Leatrice Eisman, Pantone’s color specialist, told CNN, “It’s a warm and cozy shade. And it’s very tactile. We feel that at a time like this, tactility is really important — to touch other people and gather them into our homes.”
Peach has already made its presence known, featured on runways previewing the Spring and Summer fashion styles for next year, CNN reported.
Even Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson sported a peach fuzz-colored tuxedo jacket for the 2023 Oscars.
Past colors of the year as selected by Pantone include:
- 2023 - Viva Magenta
- 2022 - Very Peri
- 2021 - Ultimate Gray and Illuminating
- 2020 - Classic Blue
- 2019 - Living Coral
- 2018 - Ultra Violet
- 2017 - Greenery
- 2016 - Rose Quartz and Serenity
- 2015 - Marsala
- 2014 - Radiant Orchid
- 2013 - Emerald
- 2012 - Tangerine Tango
- 2011 - Honeysuckle
- 2010 - Turquoise
- 2009 - Mimosa
- 2008 - Blue Iris
- 2007 - Chili Pepper
- 2006 - Sand Dollar
- 2005 - Blue Turquoise
- 2004 - Tiger Lilly
- 2003 - Aqua Sky
- 2002 - True Red
- 2001 - Fuchsia Rose
- 2000 - Cerulean