Here's the Color of the Year 2021: Ultimate Gray + Bright Yellow

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Since 2000, the global color agency pantone has used one or two colors to summarize and express each year based on the events and transformations that have taken place that year.

And with the gradual improvement of consumer culture and quality of life, color has evolved from a small number of designs in the industry to an embellishment and echo in almost everyone's life today.

So at the end of each year, we begin to develop an unconscious expectation, looking forward to what kind of color, will become the definition of next year's year. Just like the 2021 color of the year - Illuminating Bright Yellow + Ultimate Gray - that came out a few days ago.

In our day-to-day minds, these two colors seem less popular and widespread, and they don't seem to be the most recognized colors by the general public.

But looking at 2020, the year of the new crown epidemic, home quarantine, hill fires, locusts, Ebola, and racial issues ...... 2020 can be said to be the most tormented year for people all over the world.

So in the context of such a difficult and sleepy environment, what else is more hopeful and optimistic symbolism than yellow, and more calm and resilient guarding spirit than gray?

So the purpose of the color of the year is not to be popular, but whether the spiritual symbols behind the color can play a role in humanistic care.

So today, with yellow and gray as the main theme, we focus on expanding and answering the question of the significance of these two colors in the life of the communication and aesthetic considerations.

Bright yellow

When we think of the color yellow, we are always reminded of words like cheerful, hopeful, sunny, happy, and novel ...... and many other words full of positive meaning.

And in the color of nature, yellow can be said to be in the forefront, we see the sunshine and sunset every day, the apricot in the spring, the sunflowers in the summer, the harvest scene in the autumn, and the early winter of the fallen leaves on the ground.

Such a yellow color has always been a never-ending source and fertile ground for the artist's brush, like Van Gogh's famous Fifteen Sunflowers.

In a golden yellow hue, through different saturated yellow, interwoven with the beauty of the moment of life in full bloom, like the climax of the symphony, the apex of life, the sun's extreme ......

Also like the childish fun and cheerfulness of Wes Anderson's film, the Moonrise Kingdom inside that Exodus, because of the color yellow, thus making the laws of freedom seem less absurdly cruel.

The yellow color in Sydney: A Vision of Reality, on the other hand, is a siege and a cage for the lonely.

So the vagaries of the color yellow, because of the transformation of the mind and the times, and thus has another answer to jump out of the inherent meaning, then we can define the color yellow as hope, but also as scrutiny and introspection, which is extremely necessary.

In addition to the yellow in art films, yellow in the context of clothing has always been active in the arena of fashion, In fact, no matter what color sells best every year, yellow will always occupy a place, especially in the fall and winter clothing system inside the yellow tone of the earth.

Today's bright yellow, to be honest, good to wear, but less subtle convergence of the senior meaning , good to wear because of its brightness has a very good brightening effect.

And it's too direct, just in time for these years is the world of low saturation, so in the color above we need some tips to enhance its style , such as with similar color green, preferably low-saturation greenish yellow, which can be stabilized at the same time as the yellow, to bring a subtle elegance.

Or with the neighboring color red with, but not high saturation red, but with the yellow intertwined with the formation of the red-yellow, that is, red-brown, yellow-brown.

This can instead use the eye-catching sense of yellow to accentuate the prominent effect of texture, which becomes particularly harmonious and flavorful.

Of course, in addition to the neighboring colors green and red, black and white to what time is not absent important guests.

When paired with black, yellow rarely becomes modern and retro; and when paired with white, it can reduce the saturation of yellow and turn into a creamy tone inside the tenderness.

And blue is also a good partner of yellow, a too cold and hot, single take out either too full or too cold, just collide together, make up for each other's lack.

Unexpectedly, yellow actually with pink is also very appropriate, but the best is the kind of low slow saturation of the powder, a little bit of embellishment some some yellow, powder, but more elegant and tolerant degree of endurance.

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Ultimate Gray

Gray has always been the common color of life, it has the universal attributes of black and white, but the black and white way of the ultimate and clear, so the gray fusion and eclecticism, which is exactly the expression of the traditional Chinese culture inside the middle way. --The neutralization.

Inside the natural color, gray is the chaotic time when the sky will be bright, the fusion zone between heaven and earth, the color of the earth and soil, the silence after the tide, and the transient silence inside the human heart. It seems that the purpose of gray can never be separated from the calm and slow aftermath

But in the art system, gray is always in the auxiliary and transitional role, very few painters specifically use gray as the main color, in addition to Giorgio Morandi.

The Italian painter who painted bottles and jars all his life, neither traveled far nor became a homeowner, and his life is like his gray-toned paintings, which eternally remain simple, rustic, and do not change for external objects of the quiet will.

That's why its gray can become the highest symbol of fashion aesthetics - simplicity - today, nearly a hundred years later.

Of course, this high-level gray tone, in recent years, has also been used by many home designers, as the main atmosphere of interior design - gentle and warm home is a person's spiritual harbor.

And in clothing design, gray is always a kind of high class, high level of mature women have the comfort of convergence and ease in , like the 1998 Hermes show, it can almost be regarded as the interpretation of gray to the inner spirit of the system of transcendental expression.

Waiting for today, gray still continues the elegant atmosphere of immobility, and if you want to use the gray with better, with the wind and clouds of the senior, gray with the same color collocation, is the unchanging law of Morandi.

Through different shades of gray, superimposed to create a multi-layered gentle texture and elegant atmosphere, in order to convey a visual language that can soothe the heart.

In addition to the same color scheme, one of the most wearable color systems for gray is to work with white, because black is easy to bring gray to the muddy and dark.

But the choice of white is not that kind of cold white, the best with a bit of yellow tones of milky white, and soft and elegant can only be gray, mentioned an elegant point of view.

Black is not as good as white to wear, but black and gray is still a very good texture with color, just with, you can small with the help of a little white on the side to brighten up, at the same time, most of the gray some, some of the small part of the black, so that the proportion of the color, you can match the black and white with gray with a more hierarchical sense.

Just did not expect is that the peacock blue actually with gray so harmonious, in fact, this blue has been a good color phase, it is for brightening whitening has a very good role.

At the same time with a coffee-colored texture bag from the circle, a know beauty, good taste of high-level women jumped in front of the eyes.

And gray has been with the yellow is also very compatible, a gentle and elegant, an active novelty, with a little bright yellow to play the role of eye-catching good.

So a bouquet of flowers, a bag, a shirt, in a gray-toned atmosphere, like a beam of light, instantly light up a woman's life, but also may be a man's life, or full of gray process of 2021.