Dec 7 2022 - Colour of the Year

 

The Hudson's Bay blanket has red, green, white and gold.  There is no known specific meaning to the colours. They were popular when the blankets were first produced, and are sometimes known as Queen Anne's colours, as they were favoured during her reign (1702–14).   In 1890, because other companies (including Pendleton) were making similar blankets, Hudson Bay began to label its blankets. The labels are how most collectors date the age of the blanket. If you ever spy an unlabeled, round corner blanket, scoop it up. It could date before 1890.  In the Pendleton blankets, the three, four, or five black stripes in the design indicated the value of the blanket.  And the red and green at Christmas?   The Celtics put up red and green holly.  And then it was Coca-Cola who ran those Santa Christmas ads from 1931 to 1964 with his red coat matching their red label.  The particular shades of red and green in the ads came to signify Christmas.   And Pantone's colour of the year? It was just announced, and is not a Christmas shade at all, even though it is considered a shade of red. It is Viva-Magenta 18-1750.  I don't know if it will become ingrained in our psyches the way Christmas colours are.  While it may be called a "strong shade of red",  it looks vivid pink to me.  It is meant too allude to strength, vigour, and courage.  We'll be seeing it a lot in all sorts of places.  All over the internet, in beauty and hair products, in packaging,   What I notice is that it seems to be a different colour on various websites.   "PANTONE 18-1750 Viva Magenta mixes with a variety of hues in a series of four palettes, available to designers as inspiration to incorporate into designs via the Pantone Connect digital color platform. Pantone Connect is available as a mobile app and on the web, and as an extension app for Adobe® Creative Cloud® to make capturing, curating, and designing with Pantone Color easy and accessible. A featured Color of the Year page has all relevant color information for using PANTONE 18-1750 Viva Magenta across various physical and digital design media." Don't you enjoy the names of the colours?   Farewell to Fall - the leaves are all on the ground and out of the gutters, thanks to the visit from the eavestrough cleaning crew yesterday.   Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca