Trending PANTONE Colors In Your Halloween Home Design

Trending PANTONE Colors In Your Halloween Home Design

The PANTONE Autumn/Winter 2019-2020 Color Trend Report gave us some great options for Halloween color design this year! When the team at PANTONE gives you multiple shades of orange and some intriguing neutrals to play with, it’s practically your responsibility as a design enthusiast to have some fun with creating Halloween color schemes for your home.

Orange Tiger (PANTONE 16-1358) leads the way as a classic, bright orange that ‘screams Halloween’. From pumpkins to candy corn, Orange Tiger (and its compatriot in the PANTONE Autumn 2019 palette Dark Cheddar) is the centerpiece of any trendy Halloween design.

Once your core Halloween color is established, it’s time to have some fun. Will you pair it with a ghoulish gray like Paloma (PANTONE 16-0000), or a dark and sturdy brown like Rocky Road (PANTONE 19-1234)? Both Paloma and Rocky Road provide great stability and versatility as neutral tones and allow you to play with plenty of other color options in your Halloween decor and design.

If you want to continue a “dark and stormy night” theme established by Paloma, try playing with tones like Vanilla Custard and Evening Blue. If you’re more interested in a “bloody good time”, Creme de Peche and Biking Red might be the way to go.

What are YOU doing for Halloween color design this year? How are you using PANTONE color trends this fall? Let us know in the comments below!

Trendy Halloween PANTONE Colors: Classic Orange Options

Orange Tiger: The Classic Bright Halloween Orange
PANTONE Autumn 2019 Color Orange Tiger
Dark Cheddar: A Deeper Orange Option
PANTONE Autumn 2019 Color Dark Cheddar

Trendy Halloween PANTONE Colors: Dark and Spooky

Paloma: A Ghoulish, Go-To Gray
PANTONE Autumn/Winter 2019 Paloma
Rocky Road: A Sturdy, Complementary Brown
PANTONE Autumn/Winter 2019 Rocky Road

Trendy Halloween PANTONE Colors: Bright and Ghostly

Vanilla Custard: A Reliable, Bright Off-White
PANTONE Autumn/Winter 2019 Vanilla Custard
Creme de Peche: A Rosy Light Tone
PANTONE Autumn/Winter 2019 Creme de Peche

Trendy Halloween PANTONE Colors: Intriguing Choices

Biking Red: A “Blood-Red” Dark Crimson

PANTONE Autumn 2019 Color Biking Red

Evening Blue: A Dark and Stormy Night
Evening Blue (PANTONE 19-3815)

Cooling Off | The Cool Tones of PANTONE Autumn 2019

Cooling Off | The Cool Tones of PANTONE Autumn 2019

With all the Autumn Heat dominating this fall’s color design landscape, PANTONE had to do something to cool it down a bit.

The 5 cool tones chosen by PANTONE to balance the overall heat of the Autumn 2019 Color Trend Report are thoughtful and understated. (Even the relative vibrance of a tone called Guacamole is muted when surrounded by Orange Tiger and Chili Pepper.)

Pantone Autumn 2019 Cool Color Tones

Guacamole, Eden, Evening Blue, Galaxy Blue and Bluestone offer a bridge between the core Autumn 2019 PANTONE collection and its accompanying “Classics”. Guacamole stands a bit on its own, as Eden’s lush forest green stands a bit closer to the night sky of Evening Blue. Bluestone is a versatile and ‘quiet’ blue-gray that works beautifully in traditional and transitional kitchen and bath design. Galaxy Blue is “that” mainstay blue tone – royal, elegant and alluring.

The overall steadiness of PANTONE’s Autumn 2019 cool colors is a departure from the rest of the Autumn 2019 collection, and certainly from the Bold Optimism of the Spring 2019 Color Trend Report. Spring’s ‘cool colors’ were vibrant and commanded attention; tones like Pepper Stem and Princess Blue were less ‘shrinking violet’s and more center stage.

By contrast, Fall 2019’s cool tones are more sedate, more content to provide stability in the background. While the lush elegance of Eden and Evening Blue is evident, they’re not going to dazzle you from across the room.

And that sedate beauty is precisely what this season’s Color Trend Report needed. With firecrackers like Dark Cheddar and Fruit Dove going off all over this PANTONE collection, high-visibility cream tones like Crème de Pêche and Vanilla Custard demanding their own turn in the spotlight, and the sweet tones of Sugar Almond and Peach Pink pulling some focus, the cool colors in the PANTONE Autumn 2019 collection had to provide a quiet, complementary backbone.

Let’s take a look at the 5 cool colors selected for the PANTONE Autumn/Winter 2019-2020 Color Trend Report.

PANTONE Autumn 2019 Color Trend Report: The Cool Color Tones

Guacamole (PANTONE 17-0530)

Guacamole (PANTONE 17-0530)

Eden (PANTONE 19-6050)

Eden (PANTONE 19-6050)

Evening Blue (PANTONE 19-3815)

Evening Blue (PANTONE 19-3815)

Galaxy Blue (PANTONE 19-4055)

Galaxy Blue (PANTONE 19-4055)

Bluestone (PANTONE 19-4055)

Bluestone (PANTONE 19-4055)

Which of these 5 colors (Guacamole, Eden, Evening Blue, Galaxy Blue or Bluestone) do you think is the most versatile and useful? Which would you like to use in your dream kitchen or bath design? Leave us a comment!