Creating a Colour of the Year
Did you know that ages before a colour is created, Dulux consult a range of experts from around the world about where the world is heading and what factors will be influencing the way we live?
This global trend forecast then helps Dulux create colour stories, which will fit our way of living.
With the desire to break free, press reset and welcome in the new at the heart of their story for 2025, the theme became 'Just Leap' - to empower us all to get out there, change, and create.
3 palettes of colours are created, and one overall colour chosen for 2025 to put joy on your wall and bring a smile to your face.
And you thought it was just another shade of yellow paint!
Colour Palette 1 reflects being excited about persuing new horizons
Light and bright colours offer choices of uplifting and fresh decorating schemes to help you feel motivated.
Colour Palette 2 wants to celebrate all that is hand-made
Earthy tones compliment the yellow of True Joy giving a softer palette of shades to choose from.
Colour Palette 3 takes us back to re-embrace with our heritage
Rich, heritage colours work wonderfully well to bring warmth, depth and soul to your living space.
With so many ways to use the Dulux Colour of the Year 2025, you can have True Joy in your home whether just as a small accent in a subtle colour scheme, or as the sunniest player in a bolder scheme. How ever you paint with it, we are sure you will indeed find True Joy! Available to mix in-store in a choice of finishes.
Click the banner to download the full Dulux COTY 2025 brochure and see more of the latest gorgeous paint colours available to you from Dulux.
All Dulux colours are available to mix, or standard colours are available in tins in a variety of finishes, in our Home & Garden stores. With specialist paints for bathrooms, kitchens, quick dry, one-coat and Dulux Heritage options too, pop into your local store in Wrexham, Wales, and Oswestry and Whitchurch in Shropshire, for everything you need for your painting project. We stock trade paints too.
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