Spring Color Forecast: Highlighting The Hottest Web Design Color Trends 2018

Nicole Clark

7 years ago

Are you fond of colors? Do you think that colors are an indispensable part of your life? Are you inevitably falling in love with a certain color now and then? If you answered ‘Yes’ to some of these questions, you pass the muster and make your small (yet important) contribution to mass color preferences. These preferences distill into the governing color trends of the period and manifest themselves in anything from home décor to web design. Today, we’re here to talk about colors and take a closer look at web design color trends 2018 and the spring color forecast, in particular.

To start the ball rolling, we’ll drop by the acclaimed New York and London fashion weeks and enjoy an accurate, expertize-based Pantone spring colors 2018 breakdown. We won’t pass on fall colors 2018 semiannual prediction as well. Then, we’ll zoom out scope-wise and identify the governing web design color trends 2018.

By reading this article, you’ll learn what’re the colors, shades, and hues that you should populate your website with this year. Absorb and internalize the roster of color trends 2018, and your forward-looking website UI will get sizeable traction and supplant the washed-out and obsolescent competition.

Pantone Color Forecast 2018

When it comes to accurate and highly professional color forecast 2018, there’s hardly a better color expert to turn to than Pantone Color Institute. This U.S.-based corporation is one of the major influencers in the printing industry, as well as in the manufacturing of fabric, plastic and colored paint.

From 2014 on, experts of Pantone compile semi-annual color trend reports that serve as a staple for the design industry. Within the reports, the experts predict a number of call-out and classic shades that’ll rule the catwalks of New York and London fashion weeks. However, their predictions prove applicable not only to the fashion industry. As a matter of fact, expect to see the featured hues disseminating all over the web and predetermining the color landscape of the new-fashioned web.

If you drop by Pantone website, you’ll see that the spring and fall colors reports are already up. What’s more, for 2018, we have even more shades to choose from as New York and London fashion weeks have their own color trends 2018 reports.

Pantone Spring Colors 2018

This spring brings us the shades that drive a fresh flux of energy to 2018 fashion. The springtime colors 2018 are highly energetic, sophisticated and serene. The majority of them are bouncy and cheerful. In fact, these are the fresh shades, optimal for mixing and matching up to user’s desire. On the other hand, the shades foster the feel of intricacy and idiosyncrasy, providing for a wide range of possible color combinations that wary in contrast from mild to dramatic.

The colors that made it to London FW set of Pantone Spring Report are the following:

The New York FW palette features the following items:

As you can see, some of the colors represented on both sets are the same (e.g. Meadowlark, Cherry Tomato, etc.) Others are the competing shades that have similar tint and impact (e.g. Chili Oil vs. Spiced Apple). So, if dealing with 24 Pantone spring colors 2018 is too much for you, you can skim them down to 12 statement-making staple shades. See them below:

It’s a common practice to combine the stand-out colors featured above with the more neutral and straightforward classic colors. According to Pantone, the classic shades that make it to the top this spring are the following:

The colors you’ve just seen above reign supreme not only when it comes to fashion, but also when it comes to web design. You can experiment with combining the highlight and staple shades, as well as with adding other matching colors to provide an ample color choice on your website. See a couple of all-the-rage sample color palettes, each featuring two or more Pantone Spring Report shades:

Want to see the spring color forecast 2018 in action? MotoCMS designers have introduced a bunch of shades into the newly released feminine website templates. Here’s a couple of items that breathe with a gentle and warm spring breeze:

Pantone Color Forecast 2018

Pantone Spring Colors 2018

Pantone Fall Colors 2018

Top 5 Hottest Web Design Color Trends 2018

#1: Ultra Violet Space Odyssey

#2: The Reign of Pink

#3: Multidimensional Blackness

#4: New-Fashioned Gradients

#5: Ambient Pastels

Wrapping Up