Radiant Orchid is the Color of the Year

By Trevin Shirey on February 6, 2014

Trevin is the Sr. Director of Business Development at WebFX. He has worked on over 450 marketing campaigns and has been building websites for over 20 years. His work has been featured by Search Engine Land, USA Today, Fast Company and Inc.

Every year since 2000, Pantone Inc., creators of the popular PMS standardized color system, chooses an emerging color they believe is rising in popularity in the creative fields.

Last year, they bestowed the honor to "Emerald". In 2014, it’s a bright purple color they’re calling "Radiant Orchid".

Color Codes for Radiant Orchid

Here are Radiant Orchid color values for various popular color systems/notations. You can find this information on Pantone’s official page.

Hexadecimal

CSS notation
`#B163A3`

RGB

CSS notation	(R) Red	(G) Green	(B) Blue
`rgb(177, 99, 163)`	177	99	163

CMYK

(C) Cyan	(M) Magenta	(Y) Yellow	(K) Key Black
33	72	0	0

In Photoshop

Note: The CMYK value shown in Photoshop is different from the one on Pantone’s official page and the one presented above.

Using Shades of Purple Similar to Radiant Orchid

Dribbble allows you to filter results based on color, so I used the Radiant Orchid hexadecimal color code — #B163A3 — to find the designs below.

Note that these designs don’t color-match with Radiant Orchid quite exactly, and can vary in shade by up to 50%. So I placed a Radiant-Orchid-colored border around them for your reference.

By Jord Riekwel