Sweet Embrace™ has been announced as the Dulux Trade Colour of the Year 2024. Supported by three inspiring colour palettes, the colour gives specifiers the flexibility to update educational spaces in different ways and meet the needs of the students and teachers who use them.

Each year, AkzoNobel invites acclaimed international experts, alongside Dulux Trade colour specialists, to analyse global colour and design trends. These insights are then used as building blocks to identify and form the next Colour of the Year.

For 2024, Sweet Embrace™ is the chosen shade. It’s a delicate and modern blossom pink that specifiers can use to bring a sense of stability, calm, and friendliness to many types of spaces.

People are searching for peace of mind, clarity, and moments of joy, and Sweet Embrace™ captures this mood perfectly. For specifiers and clients, it’s a shade that can help to give spaces meaning and where everyone can feel at ease.

Sweet Embrace™ in the education sector
Sweet Embrace™ and its three new palettes – Warm, Calm and Uplifting – offer a range of colour combinations you can use to transform the way a school, college or university feels.

Creating a joyful, comfortable learning environment can help students to feel positive and motivated. Here are three ways you could use the new palettes to add personality to an assembly hall, corridor, classroom and more.

Uplifting: perfect for creating a friendly feel
Upbeat and inviting, this palette of modern ochres and soft lilacs helps to bring joy and energy to a learning environment, so that students can feel relaxed, inspired and ready to learn.

Calm: perfect for creating quiet spaces
These soft greens and blues have a naturally calming and clarifying effect. It makes the palette perfect for quiet spaces where students need to be able to feel at ease and focus, such as the library.

Warm: perfect for creating comfy spaces
Natural shades of sand, soil and terracotta can be used to create warm and inviting spaces. So, this palette is ideal for spaces where people come together to relax and connect, like the common room.

Further support on Dulux Trade Colour of the Year 2024
Colour can how a powerful positive impact on a space, and the wellbeing of teachers and students. So it’s important to get the right advice on the latest interior design trends and colour collections available to you.

Dulux Trade are trusted colour experts and have all the resources you need to utilise the Colour of the Year 2024 in a wide range of sectors.

Download the Dulux Trade ColourFutures™ 2024 Guide for Specifiers today. You’ll learn how you can use Sweet Embrace™️ and its three supporting palettes to transform interior and exterior spaces for your upcoming projects.

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