Ten colors, ten codes and a report released just over six weeks ago: when the Pantone Color Institute summed up New York Fashion Week for spring and summer 2027, Anise Flower, Princess Blue and Daiquiri Green made the same list. It sounds like fashion news, but runway colors tend to trickle down to the living room, and the cheapest way to try a new shade is with a poster—it costs less than a cushion and can be swapped when you tire of it. Here’s the full list, and how each color works on a wall.
Quick facts: Pantone’s color report for New York Fashion Week, spring/summer 2027, was reported by FashionUnited on September 21, 2026. The list has ten colors—Anise Flower (12-0717), Princess Blue (19-4150), Waterfall (15-5516), Langoustino (16-1440), Chili Pepper (19-1557), Rosy Future (15-1910), Dragon Fire (16-1460), Daiquiri Green (12-0435), Hibiscus (18-1762) and Lavender Oil (15-3615)—plus five seasonless neutrals. The report is published twice a year and covers New York and London.
Ten colors on one list: how to read Pantone’s spring report for 2027
The Pantone Color Institute reviews the New York Fashion Week shows and counts which shades recur. The result for spring and summer 2027 is unusually varied. There’s a pale yellow (Anise Flower), a deep, saturated blue (Princess Blue), a mid-tone blue-green (Waterfall), a warm coral red (Langoustino), a dark, fiery red (Chili Pepper), a light pink (Rosy Future), an intense orange (Dragon Fire), a sharp citrus green (Daiquiri Green), a slightly cooler red (Hibiscus) and a muted lavender with herbal undertones (Lavender Oil).
The institute’s own summary points to a push and pull between the desire to stand out and the desire to stay subdued and calm—in other words, loud voices and whispers in the same wardrobe. Six of the ten names come from food or plants: an herb, a shellfish, a chili pepper, a cocktail, a flower and an essential oil. It’s a color palette that smells more than it shines, and that’s precisely what makes it interesting for a wall.
Pantone has also collaborated with the company Raspberry AI on AI-generated mood boards and material studies, showing how quickly forecasting is changing. If you’re choosing artwork, there’s one main thing to keep in mind: the list is a resource to pick from, not a recipe. Ten colors in one room look like a paint store’s color chart. Two or three make a composition.
Princess Blue and Waterfall: the two blues that split the list between cool and deep
Princess Blue (19-4150) is the boldest color on the list: a blue with a regal bearing, according to Pantone’s own description, and saturated enough to cover an entire wall. Waterfall (15-5516) is its opposite – an airier blue-green closer to water than sky. Together, they cover a range many Swedish homes already inhabit, since blue and green are the colors least likely to feel intrusive when displayed for many years.
In practice, Princess Blue works best as one large area, such as a 70x100 abstract composition above the sofa, with room around the blue. It can feel heavy when crowded by lots of small prints. Waterfall is more forgiving and suits gallery walls, bathrooms, and bedrooms, where its cool tone can rest against white or sand-colored walls. If you want to try the look without committing, there’s plenty to choose from in our abstract posters, where blue fields and soft shapes are a recurring theme.
"A color from the catwalk doesn’t have to become a wall. It needs to become a poster first – and only take center stage once it’s made it through a season."
Anise Flower, Daiquiri Green, and Lavender Oil: herb-inspired colors that sound like a cocktail bar
Three of the colors on the list are light, almost translucent, and named after something you can taste or smell. Anise Flower (12-0717) is a pale yellow close to the butter yellow that dominated summer 2026. Daiquiri Green (12-0435) is a sharp lime that doesn’t try to be soft, and Lavender Oil (15-3615) is a lavender shade with a hint of green underneath – rather like dried lavender after a winter on the shelf.
What they have in common is that they work as accents in small doses. A lime-green lemon on a kitchen poster is a good idea, while a lime-green wall isn’t. That’s why fruit and plant prints are a natural choice: citrus and fruit posters bring in Daiquiri Green and Anise Flower without making the room yellow-green, while posters with floral motifs give Lavender Oil and Hibiscus a natural place in a design that already looks like a garden. If you’d like to read more about how yellow can work on a wall, see our guide to butter yellow as a color trend.
How to mix two herbal colors without making the result too sugary
Stick to one pastel and one bold shade, never two of equal intensity. Lavender Oil works with Daiquiri Green because one is muted and the other vivid. Lavender Oil with Rosy Future, on the other hand, becomes cloying, because both are soft and light. Add a neutral in between, and the combination feels grown-up.
Langoustino, Dragon Fire, Chili Pepper, and Hibiscus: four reds that require careful use
The list has four colors in the warm spectrum: the coral Langoustino (16-1440), the orange Dragon Fire (16-1460), the dark Chili Pepper (19-1557), and the slightly cooler Hibiscus (18-1762). It’s unusually high in red tones for a single list, and sends a clear signal about the direction for 2027: fashion is moving away from quiet beige.
On a wall, red is a color that catches the eye and raises the temperature. Research on the hue-heat effect, which we’ve covered in a separate article, suggests that red and orange surfaces make us perceive a room as warmer. That suits the darker months but means you need to choose a specific spot. One large poster featuring Chili Pepper as the main color in the hallway is enough to make a statement. Four red surfaces in a living room feel oppressive. Here’s what to do: choose the red shade closest to the color of your existing wood or textiles - Langoustino with light wood, Chili Pepper with dark oak, Hibiscus with black or charcoal gray. Color-burst posters are a natural place to start if you want a design with red as the main feature.
Tip: Hold a Pantone color swatch against the wall at two different times - nine in the morning and in the evening light. Reds and oranges shift more than any other colors when the light changes temperature, and a print that looks soft during the day can become aggressive under a warm incandescent bulb.
The five neutrals: from Antique White to Dolphin, framing the color
Alongside the ten main colors, Pantone presents five seasonless neutrals: Antique White (11-0105), Tarragon (15-0326), Arrowwood (16-0954), Blue Indigo (19-3928), and Dolphin (16-2901). These are the report’s most important colors for anyone decorating, because they’re the colors that make the other ten work. Antique White is a warm, off-white shade that replaces clinical white. Tarragon is a gray-green herb, Arrowwood an earthy ochre-brown, Blue Indigo a dark navy, and Dolphin a cool, slightly lavender gray.
This has practical implications when choosing posters. A poster with Chili Pepper as its main color will feel calmer with an Antique White mat, while a poster in Waterfall gains depth from a Blue Indigo or black frame. If you don’t have time to think about color theory, the rule that the subject’s color should be one of the ten, while the frame and margin should be one of the five, is enough. Our overview of minimalist posters is a good starting point if you want neutrals to be the main theme and a single accent color to come from a small poster.
The timeline: when to switch from winter to spring colors in 2027
The report covers spring and summer 2027, but stores and artists are already looking ahead. In practical terms, you can plan the transition in three steps. During winter, from Advent through January, keep the dark and muted subjects. In February, the light starts to return, and it’s the right time to add a first accent, for example a small poster in Lavender Oil or Anise Flower on the shelf. The spring equinox falls on March 20, 2027, and Easter Sunday on March 28, two dates that work as natural opportunities to change large artworks.
The same idea appears in our overview of interior design trends for 2027, where the most important signals come from furniture and interior design fairs rather than fashion. There, and in this report, the same theme recurs: color is becoming more personal and less dictated by a single color of the year. Also read our article on the green shades for 2027 if you want to compare fashion’s palette with that of the home textiles industry.
One final observation concerns the order. Many people start with the color and then look for a subject, but it usually works better the other way around: find the subject you want to see every morning, then check that its dominant tone is close to one of the ten. If it isn’t, that matters less than you might think, because a good subject has a palette of its own. The trend is a guide to what our eyes will get used to over the year, not a requirement for every wall to follow it. If you want a safe option, choose a poster that includes one of the colors on the list as a small detail, such as a tiny red spot in an otherwise muted subject, and let that detail bring the tone of spring into the room without needing to replace anything else.
A frame system that can handle changing artwork
Since the colors will change from season to season, it’s worth choosing frames in one of the neutrals – black, oak, or white – and changing only the artwork. That way, your investment is in the frame, while the trend itself costs a few hundred kronor each time you switch. Measure the format currently on your wall so your next poster has the same proportions.
Frequently asked questions about the Pantone colors for spring 2027
Want to try the spring palette without repainting? Start with a single poster in the shade that appeals to you most, hung where the light is strongest, and build from there. The full report is cited at FashionUnited.