Pantone's color of the year is Ultra-Violet, bright yellow will find its way into bathrooms and onto accent furniture, and darker yellows (
think Ocher and Mustard) are poised to warm up our living spaces.
Not exact matches
Some scratched - up chunks of
ocher, found in a cave in South Africa, may signal a change in assumptions about just how long ago humans began to communicate abstract
thoughts through language and art.
However, this year archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood of the African Heritage Research Institute in Cape Town uncovered what he considers much earlier evidence of abstract
thought — two pieces of
ocher engraved by a South African cave dweller 77,000 years ago.
Colors to
think about: pastels, whites, beige, eggshell, turquoise, deep green / blue,
ocher and coral.