Did you know the average person can see about a million different colors?
No wonder it’s so hard to decide what color to paint your living room. Fortunately, there’s help close at hand. Each year, Sherwin-Williams forecasts color trends and selects their Color of the Year — complete with color-pairing suggestions. This year’s choice, Cavern Clay, is a warm terra-cotta color that is both casual and refined.Sue Wadden, director of color marketing at Sherwin-Williams, leads the global color and design team that chooses the Color of the Year. She says they start by researching the trends that influence how people interact with color. “Every year, the color marketing team and I discuss what we’re seeing in global trends, not just in interior design, but in fashion, food, travel, and society,” Wadden says. “Then we decide what colors will be the most prominent next year, which makes up our Colormix® forecast. One color from that forecast gets chosen as the Color of the Year.”