Knowing me, knowing hue
Brunch|April 06, 2024
Do you follow or throw shade at the Colour Of The Year? Design experts weigh in on whether the global craze for new palettes matters in India
Anushree Chatterjee
Knowing me, knowing hue

Don't be fooled by those pastel-wedding Reels. Under the veil, India remains polychromatic and proud. Peach Fuzz is the Pantone Color Insitute's Color of the Year. Four months into 2024, does Fuzz even matter? See how India's design industry is adopting and abandoning global colour obsessions.

"Colour trends are more closely followed by global brands such as Ikea, Miniso or Muji," says Sajid Moinuddin, co-founder and creative director of Mumbai-based HB Design. In 2019, the firm incorporated coral, Pantone's colour of that year, into a project for an Indian women'shealth startup. But by and large, Moinuddin says, colour forecasts are not always relevant for India. They stump individuality.

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