The renowned color trend report continues its biennial format with Anthology Volume Two, featuring four refined palettes
CLEVELAND, July 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sherwin-Williams Company today announces its 2026 Colormix® Trend Forecast Anthology Volume Two, the second iteration of its biennial approach to the annual color trend report, highly sought after by designers. This iteration will focus on color evolution and will dive deeper into the evolution of specific color families that will shape the future of design. Featuring four expertly curated palettes developed with both residential and commercial design in mind, the trend forecast illuminates the up-and-coming colors that will define what will be next in 2026 and beyond.
Comprising 48 hand-selected hues, including sensational pastels, retro-inspired reds and golds, soothing darks, and modern neutrals, this curated collection is organized by color families, shifting the emphasis away from traditional style and trend storytelling as the brand's previous Colormix® Trend Forecast reports. In the 2024 Colormix® Trend Forecast Anthology Volume One, Sherwin-Williams examined the emerging hues of the moment, organized into four distinct palettes: blues and greens, reds and purples, deeps and darks, and delicate tints. This year, each of the four palettes represents a refined evolution of those color families – introducing frosted tints, sunbaked hues, restorative darks, and foundational neutrals.
"With Anthology Volume Two, we're continuing to evolve how we tell the story of color," said Emily Kantz, color marketing manager at Sherwin-Williams. "This forecast goes beyond aesthetic trends to explore the emotional impact and practical beauty of color families that stand the test of time. These palettes are designed to inspire creativity while offering designers, professionals, and homeowners grounded, usable color direction across every space."
The trend forecast is developed by the Sherwin-Williams Trendsight Team of expert forecasters, made up of the foremost thought leaders and design professionals in color with over 200 years of collective experience combining research analytics and diligent trend tracking to monitor and report on trends, defining the future of design and color across the globe. From the Colormix® Trend Forecast, Sherwin-Williams highly anticipated Color of the Year is drawn, as well as its featured Colors of the Month for the upcoming year.
From airy pastels to subdued darks, these hues are also poised to play a meaningful role in shaping the next wave of commercial design across hospitality, education, healthcare, multi-family, new residential, and beyond.
Palette No. 1: Frosted Tints Hazy lavenders, gauzy blues, enchanted aquamarines, and refreshing greens breeze into a new era with a chill, a hush, and a deliberate dose of near-weightless color. An evolution of the delicate tints from previous forecasts, milky pastels are making their magnificent return, unfolding in spaces defined by effortlessly clean lines, artful accents, and elevated styling.
Palette No. 2: Sunbaked Hues Kindling a warmth that recalls the radiance of midcentury design, glimmers of yellow, earthen mauve, pink sandstone, and blushing adobe flicker and flow as the reds, oranges, and golds of the future. The poetic reds and purples of the past make way for buttery yellows and intensely fiery hues—a collection of colors aglow with incandescence.
Palette No. 3: Restorative Darks The selection of deep hues from past forecasts builds a quiet strength, with depth-defying tones like shadowed gold and coppery red, dark plum, alluring burgundy, and nocturnal blacks and blues. This stabilizing group of colors retains longevity into the future, continuing to ground and reassure with a blanketing, blissful depth, the serenity of night, and the kind of comfort worth sinking into.
Palette No. 4: Foundational Neutrals Clean white, light taupe, silvery gray, and crisp khaki are poised in perfect balance with inky blue-black, toasted spice, and the deep shades of a distant storm in this intricate mix of modern neutrals. Seasonless, sumptuous, and unparalleled in their ability to invite layered loveliness, today's essentials suggest a shift from divinely delicate to a future of curated contrast and complexity.
All 48 hues included in the 2026 Colormix® Trend Forecast Anthology Volume Two are available at Sherwin-Williams stores nationwide and online.
Homeowners and PROs can order FREE Colormix® Trend Forecast color chip samples at swsamples.com or at their local neighborhood store.
Designers can order complimentary color samples of the 2026 Colormix® Trend Forecast Anthology Volume Two and the designer-exclusive Colormix Trend Forecast® Lookbook at swcolormix.com.
Learn more about Sherwin-Williams 2026 Colormix® Trend Forecast Anthology Volume Two and other color selection resources at swcolorforecast.com.
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