Pantone 2024 Color of the Year: Peach Fuzz

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It is that time of year! Anyone in fashion, interior design, or simply a color enthusiast, loves learning what the “it” trend is for the year and, of course, what the chosen color of the year is. Annually, Pantone Color Institute releases a new color that will be the highlight color of the year. For 2024, we shall introduce to you: Peach Fuzz!

Peach Fuzz embodies the feelings of both pink and orange in its delightful mix of the two colors. Pantone says, “PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz is a velvety gentle peach whose all-embracing spirit enriches heart, mind, and body.” With a dazzling description like that, who wouldn’t want to learn more?

Pantone

Pantone Color Institute was founded in 1985 with the mission to educate, inspire, and promote “fluency in the language of color.” Just like we have different types of verbal, sign, and body language, Pantone provides a “universal language of color.” This creates uniformity across many elements of design, like graphics, fashion, and products, to allow for a consistent transfer of color, a mutual understanding, and to provide inspiration to look at color in different ways. Color evokes a psychological response, and often, with current events, similar feelings can be felt across the globe, so through careful research, Pantone seeks to “connect the mood of the global zeitgeist with the corresponding color family.”

Selecting the color of the year is not an easy process. It takes time, influence, perspectives, research, and dedication from the global team at the Pantone Institute of Color. Laurie Pressman, VP of Pantone Color Institute, educates us on those who collectively select the color that will best represent the year’s unity through a visual view, she says:

Our Pantone Color Institute team members come from a wide range of design, cultural, and geographical backgrounds. The commonality that brings them together is their expertise in color and design, and their ability to see the world through the lens of color. That’s why I liken them to being color anthropologists. They have this intuitive ability to connect all that is taking place in the world and translate it into the language of color.

When looking at the color selection as a global effort, Pressman explains that all the different perspectives are carefully looked at, “but because the Pantone Color of the Year reflects what is taking place in our global culture at that moment in time, many of our observations and what we see visually showing up can be quite similar.”

Regardless of your place in time, your geographic location, your race, sex, or religion, color can be seen and provoke particular responses by many people—it is a beautiful way to unknowingly connect through the effects of color.

Peach Fuzz

It is a delight to our senses that Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2024 is Peach Fuzz. This is a warm, cozy, and soft peach hue that is a gentle mix of pink and orange. Pressman expresses,

PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz inspires belonging, recalibration, and an opportunity for nurturing, conjuring up an air of calm, offering us a space to be, feel, and heal and to flourish from. Drawing comfort from PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz, we can find peace from within, impacting our wellbeing. An idea as much as a feeling, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz awakens our senses to the comforting presence of tactility and cocooned warmth. Sensitive but sweet and airy, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz evokes a new modernity.

For interior design, Peach Fuzz is soft enough to fill a whole space, neutral enough to vibe with other warm fixtures, and powerful enough to be used as an accent, all while eliciting feelings of peace and comfort. Maybe you will find the perfect use for Peach Fuzz, or a shade within the color family, for your design project this year.

Image: Scarlet Crystal Quartzite Slab from Arizona Tile

Tile and Slab

The gentle warmth of this peach hue can be seen through natural stone and tile selections. Fortunately, the versatility of Peach Fuzz, and like colors, can be used through various elements of any room.

Knowing which product will work best in your space is an essential initial step in choosing your material. Quartzite, quartz, and porcelain and ceramic all feature different elements that make them beautiful, durable, and long-lasting, but they also have preferred uses and varying maintenance.

Image: Mustang Quartzite Natural Stone Countertop with Bathroom Sink from Arizona Tile

To embody the soft warmth of Peach Fuzz, here are some stone and tile options we recommend:

Quartzite Slabs – Known for captivating beauty and exceptional durability.

Calacatta Taupe – Cream-colored with many variations of brown veining throughout

Mustang – Creamy white with grey veining and occasional brown details

Taj Mahal – Cream-colored with honey-toned veining

Scarlet Crystal – Blush-toned with peach-colored veining

Image: Taj Mahal Quartzite Kitchen Island and Counters, Sav Wood Miele 8 x 32 Wood-Look Porcelain Floor Tile & Terra Nova 4 x 16 Marble Tile from Arizona Tile

Quartz Slabs – Modern, sophisticated, long-lasting, and durable.

Java Beige & Java Beige Honed – Mid-tone warm neutral color with fine white veins

Tawny – Greige-colored with small grey speckles

Image:  Java Beige Honed Quartz Bathroom Countertop, CS-Skyline Honed Oval Mesh Marble Tile Backsplash & CityLife Sand 36 x 36 Porcelain Floor Tile from Arizona Tile

Porcelain and Ceramic Tile – Durable, versatile, wide color ranges, and variety of uses.

Image: Cementine Retro 3 Porcelain Wall Tile, Salem Grey 3 x 12 Limestone Wall Tile & Shibusa Crema Basketweave 2 x 2 Mesh Floor Tile from Arizona Tile

Cementine Retro 3 – Beige and brown stencil design porcelain atop a subdued orange backdrop

Gioia Papaya – Bright orange color porcelain with undulated texture

Tivoli – Natural, travertine-look porcelain tile

Image: Vetri Bronzo 24×24 Porcelain Floor Tile from Arizona Tile

Verti – Solid color, glass-appearance porcelain with a pillowing-effect

Pantone Colors from Years Past

While there is so much to love about Peach Fuzz, past Pantone Color of the Year selections are still as stunning and worth looking back at: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. After viewing Peach Fuzz and past Pantone Color favorites, maybe you will be inspired to integrate some of these colors into your design. To see products you love, use our Just Imagine- Tile Visualizer. Also, at your convenience, visit an Arizona Tile store or slab yard to see your favorite selections in person.. Our helpful and knowledgeable staff is here to help so don’t hesitate to reach out.