
Did you know that there’s an agency who decides what the color trends are going to be several years in advance?
It’s called the Color Marketing Group, the leading international association of color professionals.
What does this mean to you? If you have an online (or offline) business that has anything to do with colors, you’ll definitely want to be aware of what colors are in style for the current year.
For example, Web design firms, Webmasters, clothing stores, department stores, advertising agencies, SEO/SEM companies, marketing companies, interior decorators, wallpaper and paint companies, etc., need to be aware of what colors are “in” for the current year.
So what are the hot color trends for 2008?
According to the Color Marketing Group, here are your colors for 2008:
1. Green and all colors of nature
2. Blues that remind us of the sky and water as well as a navy that’s so dark it’s almost black
3. Coppery, bronze-y tones of metallic
4. Ethnic accent colors like Moroccan reds, sunny golden yellow, and turquoise.
For more detail, read the entire article at:
http://www.colormarketing.org/Media.aspx?id=784&
Be sure to visit the Color Marketing Group every year to learn what colors are hot for the current year.
Robin

This is very interesting. I’ve done a buncha research on what colors do what to people. Like if you want people to make a fast decision on whether or not to buy something, use reds. It tends to make people edgy and wanting to get through whatever they are doing.
Comment by Don 03.04.08 @ 12:44 pmAnyway, colors are always good to know about for websites. Now if you know of a good website that gives color palattes that go together ……
This URL contains a lot of good information as well as links to other sites. It might be helpful to you.
http://www.google.com/answers/threadview?id=290239
Robin
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