I am more interested in HOW the colour epxerts analyze colour globally over 365 days than the colours they picked!! I wish they would suggest colour combinations that will rule 2009... that would be easier to judge. I will however say that i detest the shade of yellow that Colour Your World suggested as the "it" colour for 2008! Talk about bland and just a step or two away from beige/mustard....

Those colors look too muddy for my taste.

I'd paint an easter egg with these colours, not my house

meh....only like the olive green shade, and the gray

Wow, I painted my studio a similar gold color, my bedroom a baby blue that was called "thar she blows" and an accent wall in my kitchen that brownish/grey color about three years ago in my old place. Three of the four in the first swatch: I am ahead of my time.

If things keep up this way my prediction for the hot colors of 2011 are offensively bright turquoise, dark dark brown and light pink that my friends make fun of me for.

yes - too brash yet muddy for me. good point on the lack of greens though (yet i did just paint my kitchen mint, oops). overall i feel like the colors that the large corporate paint companies publicize are just too too in most cases. not sure i'd look to sherwin williams in the first place for decorating ideas. interesting post though.

Yeah, this is pretty sad. I've only found 2 of the sample squares to be somewhat decent. I could see some of the other colors as accent colors used on a pillow or something random, just not full rooms or even 1 wall.

Icky!

its interesting, ive been seeing a lot of golden yellow and gray THIS year. last fall.
but i guess thats more so in fashion?

i do love it though

2009 definitely seems like it will be the year of gray.

Do you think the muted tones are a response to the economy? No one feels brash and bold or hopeful and bright at the moment?

Its the same colors as before just switched around, like articles in womens magazines. I know colors make us feel certain ways. After traveling all over Mexico I fell in love with oranges, reds, pinks and blues however most of those colors do not work in the northeast. I find many things only look good in certain colors. The only thing that looks good in every color is the porsche.

I've really wanted to do bright pink accents in my bedroom but I've been hesitent because I fear it will turn out too juvenile. The is zany pink is not helping resist it.

Also these colors are more targeted toward commerical interiors not residential. Neocon is about contract design..so residential will always be more vibrant or less not the same as these colors.

I have always been a fan of more subtle neutrals like grays. Most of these are too saturated for my taste. The final palette and the first with the blues are the only ones that come even close to something I'd actually try.

I like plum, olive and red quite a bit. My chairs are that muted olive, almost brown.

they look so 2001 though... reminds me of re-runs of Cribs. lol

Me likey!!
I love the PINKS of course, i'm a girly girl, what can I see.
Overall these colors are quite nice. Good choices on their part.

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Dang typos...i meant what can i say?
Sherman Williams isn't bad paint...but i prefer the Ralph Lauren paints.

How colors are chosen by the Color Institute:
http://www.pantone.com/pages/ptv/ptv_youtube.aspx?movielink=FUo1zGPszaQ

I have predicted for some time now the bright chartuse-type colors would be in. Pinks have stayed around in fashion longer than I thought - only natural we would see pinks in a more complex tone coming forth, especially with the look back to the eighties and an update on the coral and peaches we saw then.

What I am really surprised about is the lack of browns, which I thought would continue to be popular. The rich chocolates may just be to "rick" for our current economic climate, as one other commenter put it.

Many of these colors look good WITH brown, though.

People aren't going to throw away their wood.

Hi -
Thanks for this post, very refreshing palettes! Can you tell us where to find a link to the press release? I have searched the 'professionals' Sherwin-Williams site and the neoCon site and found nothing... Thank you!
Krisann
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"Well-behaved women seldom make history." --Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

whatEVER. I'm sure we'll all continue using what we like, and if some of us like the "colors of the year" we'll use them. I'm not terribly fond of any of these, but chacun à son goût.

I love these colors, but maybe because I already use similar blues and grays in my apartment. I am so sick of organic modern -- greens, browns, oranges.

Wow...I've already used the Enticing Red (Luscious from Behr) for an accent wall in the living room and Eye Catching (Galley Gold from Behr) in the bedroom in my new place. And that was before seeing the post. Closest I came to Gauntlet Gray was a light shimmery sterling from Ralph Lauren for the bathroom to go with white and black tiles and chrome fixtures (the developer went for a retro 1940s feel in the renovation).

I agree about the browns but you can't toss furniture. Is any one else on here sick of wenge/espresso though? It's been done to death, I think.

Went to the paint store yesterday with the intention of getting a pale blue; walked out with BM Macaw blue which looks amazingly like Dignity Blue. BTW, I hadn't read this post so no subliminal influence.