Paint makers converge on smoky blues and earthy warmth for 2027, while a Newell Design Center in Atlanta reframes how color is sourced

2027 Color of the Year picks cluster around green, blue and grounded neutrals

Sherwin-Williams announced Celery SW 6421 as its 2027 Color of the Year, a green that anchors the brand's early paint-forecast slate for the coming cycle. The color was unveiled in a designer-facing post and is the lead signal practitioners can use to anticipate coordinating palettes for residential and commercial interiors. Clark+Kensington also announced its 2027 pick this week, naming Vantage Point (38B-4), a light blue the brand describes as modeled after a slice of sky.

Together, the two announcements confirm what the broader slate has suggested: smoky blues, greens and earthy warmth dominate the 2027 conversation across multiple paint houses, even when individual brands lean green or blue at the top of the pick list.

A Newell Design Center in Atlanta ties hardware launches to color partnerships

Newell Brands recently opened a nearly 37,000-square-foot, two-site Design Center in Atlanta, and paired the launch with a Crock-Pot Brand x Valspar color-drenched partnership announced the same week. For practitioners, the significance is operational: Newell is positioning color as a co-developed deliverable rather than a downstream finish, which means cross-brand product launches can now arrive with built-in palette guidance. Brands working in licensing or co-branded consumer goods should expect more of these color-anchored launches through 2027.

On-screen graphics: a weekend news program blends texture and color for a unified look

MS NOW's new weekend entry "The Assignment with Antonia Hylton" debuted Sept. 12, 2026, with graphics that combine texture and warmth for a distinctive on-air identity. The graphics package is a reminder that broadcast and motion design remain a live testing ground for named, repeatable color systems, especially for news brands that need to read instantly across lower-thirds, full-frame graphics and segment bumpers. Front-end and motion designers tracking how networks codify palettes will find the show a useful recent case study in texture-led, warm-toned identities.

What to do with the new palettes this week

Practitioners can act immediately on the 2027 picks by building coordinating palettes from each named hue and stress-testing them for accessible contrast. Celery SW 6421 and Vantage Point (38B-4) are easy to drop into a design system, but only after running them through contrast tooling and a CMYK preview to confirm they survive the move from screen to paint chips, brochures and packaging. Designers standardizing on these named colors should also document their HEX, RGB and CMYK equivalents in a shared library so the Valspar, Sherwin-Williams and Clark+Kensington announcements do not fragment into inconsistent swatches across teams.

Follow-up a designer can check later

No new paint or palette deadline beyond the announcement day is printed in the evidence, so treat Celery SW 6421, Vantage Point (38B-4) and the Newell–Valspar partnership as the current reference points to revisit when coordinating palettes, swatch libraries and co-branded launches are next updated.