Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2013

Mike Rankin
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Spring and St. Patrick’s Day are both still a ways off, but it’s already time to incorporate some verdant hues into your work, at least according to Pantone, which has declared Emerald 17-5641 to be the Color of the Year for 2013.

Some of the themes evoked by emerald are healing, unity, renewal, enhanced sense of well-being, balance, and harmony. Ideas of sophistication and luxury also follow from the color’s association with precious gems.

PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald comes from the Fashion and Home color guide, but you can easily cross-reference it to any of Pantone’s other color libraries, using the myPANTONE X-Ref tools on Pantone.com

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  • Anonymous says:
    January 17, 2013 at 5:19 am

    What is the fastest way to access this color in Adobe Illustrator in various versions?

    micke

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  • Mike Rankin says:
    January 17, 2013 at 1:30 pm

    Go to Window > Swatch Libraries > Color Books and choose the Pantone library you want, then enter the number for Emerald you get from the cross-reference tool mentioned in the article. For example, in the Solid Coated library it’s 7724C

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