Pantone Color of the Year 2016 Inspired By Gender Equality

December 3, 2015

The world’s #1 authority on color, Pantone, has broken from tradition this year by announcing not one, but two Colors of the Year for 2016: Rose Quartz and Serenity. That’s light pink and baby blue in everyone else speak.

The colors are described as “weightless and airy” by Pantone color experts. “Like the expanse of the blue sky above us, Serenity comforts with a…

Alex Richards is a Brooklyn-based young adult writer with a background in photography and television production. She loves making no-budget horror flicks with her friends, cooking, crafting, exploring, and being silly with her two kids, awesome husband, and lazy cats. In addition to her young adult novel, Back Talk, Alex writes for New York Family Magazine, and works with ASAP, a South African organization supporting rural communities of women caring for vulnerable children.