Sherwin-Williams Highlights 2026 Colormix Trend Forecast

The Sherwin-Williams Company announces its 2026 Colormix® Trend Forecast Anthology Volume Two, the second iteration of its biennial approach to the annual color trend report.

This iteration focuses on color evolution and will dive deeper into the evolution of specific color families that will shape the future of design.

Featuring four expertly curated palettes developed with both residential and commercial design in mind, the trend forecast illuminates the up-and-coming colors that will define what will be next in 2026 and beyond.

Comprising 48 hand-selected hues, including pastels, retro-inspired reds and golds, soothing darks, and modern neutrals, this curated collection is organized by color families, shifting the emphasis away from traditional style and trend story telling as the brand’s previous Colormix Trend Forecast reports.

In the 2024 Colormix Trend Forecast Anthology Volume One, Sherwin-Williams examined the emerging hues of the moment, organized into four distinct palettes: blues and greens, reds and purples, deeps and darks, and delicate tints.

This year, each of the four palettes represents a refined evolution of those color families –introducing frosted tints, sunbaked hues, restorative darks, and foundational neutrals.

“With Anthology Volume Two, we’re continuing to evolve how we tell the story of color,” says Emily Kantz, color marketing manager at Sherwin-Williams. “This forecast goes beyond aesthetic trends to explore the emotional impact and practical beauty of color families that stand the test of time.

From the Colormix Trend Forecast, Sherwin-Williams’ Color of the Year is drawn, as well as its featured Colors of the Month for the upcoming year.

• Palette No. 1: Frosted Tints – Hazy lavenders, gauzy blues, enchanted aquamarines, and refreshing greens breeze into a new era with a chill, a hush, and a deliberate dose of near-weightless color. An evolution of the delicate tints from previous forecasts, milky pastels are making their magnificent return, unfolding in spaces defined by effortlessly clean lines, artful accents, and elevated styling.

•Modern Lavender SW 9688

•Grape Mist SW 6548

•Lite Lavender SW 6554

•Solitude SW 6535

•Upward SW 6239

•Breathtaking SW 6814

•Samovar Silver SW 6233

•Tradewind SW 6218

•Liveable Green SW 6176

•Halcyon Green SW 6213

•Watery SW 6478

•Celery SW 6421

• Palette No. 2: Sunbaked Hues – Kindling a warmth that recalls the radiance of midcentury design, glimmers of yellow, earthen mauve, pink sandstone, and blushing adobe flicker and flow as the reds, oranges, and golds of the future. The reds and purples of the past make way for buttery yellows and intensely fiery hues—a collection of colors aglow with incandescence.

•Lemon Chiffon SW 6686

•Sundew SW 7688

•Coral Island SW 6332

•Straw Harvest SW 7698

•Sociable SW 6359

•Henna Shade SW 6326

•Classical Yellow SW 2865

•Armagnac SW 6354

•Peppery SW 6615

•Pennywise SW 6349

•Cajun Red SW 0008

•Heartthrob SW 6866

• Palette No. 3: Restorative Darks – The selection of deep hues from past forecasts builds a quiet strength, with depth-defying tones like shadowed gold and coppery red, dark plum, alluring burgundy, and nocturnal blacks and blues. This stabilizing group of colors retains longevity into the future, continuing to ground and reassure with a blanketing, blissful depth, the serenity of night, and the kind of comfort worth sinking into.

•Sable SW 6083

•Rojo Marrón SW 9182

•Roycroft Copper Red SW 2839

•Limestone SW 9599

•Relic Bronze SW 6132

•Dark Auburn SW 6034

•Garden Gate SW 6167

•Rock Bottom SW 7062

•Black Bean SW 6006

•Tarragon SW 9660

•Sea Mariner SW 9640

•Plum Brown SW 6272

• Palette No. 4: Foundational Neutrals – Clean white, light taupe, silvery gray, and crisp khaki are poised in perfect balance with inky blue-black, toasted spice, and the deep shades of a distant storm in this intricate mix of modern neutrals. Seasonless, sumptuous, and unparalleled in their ability to invite layered loveliness, today’s essentials suggest a shift from divinely delicate to a future of curated contrast and complexity.

•White Snow SW 9541

•Sanctuary SW 9583

•Passive SW 7064

•Cream and Sugar SW 9507

•Mushroom SW 9587

•Rare Gray SW 6199

•Universal Khaki SW 6150

•Sanderling SW 7513

•Pavestone SW 7642

•Clove SW 9605

•Armory SW 9600

•Inkwell SW 6992

All 48 hues included in the2026Colormix Trend Forecast Anthology Volume Two are available at Sherwin-Williams stores nationwide and online.