Pantone® Color of the Year 2022
Very Peri
Pantone® 17-3938 TCX Very Peri was named Pantone Color of the Year for 2022. Below: HEX, RGB, HSL and CMYK values, text contrast, palettes built on the color and the closest Pantone® C codes.
Note: Pantone® does not publish HEX values for its colors openly. The values here are screen approximations from community sources, not official Pantone® values. Pantone® is a trademark of Pantone LLC; this site is not affiliated with Pantone.

Pantone® 17-3938 TCX
- HEX#6667AB
- RGBrgb(102, 103, 171)
- HSLhsl(239, 29%, 54%)
- CMYKcmyk(40%, 40%, 0%, 33%)
Unconfirmed Reference sites agree on #6667AB, but Pantone does not publish a HEX for this color openly and we found no second independent source. Treat it as a close guess.
Text contrast (WCAG 2)
White text on Very Peri
5.13:1
AA normal: Pass · AA large: Pass · AAA normal: Fail
Black text on Very Peri
4.09:1
AA normal: Fail · AA large: Pass · AAA normal: Fail
Color palettes based on Very Peri
Complementary — Opposite colors on the color wheel
- #6667AB
- #ACAB68
Analogous — Colors adjacent on the color wheel
- #68ACAB
- #688BAC
- #6667AB
- #8968AC
- #AB68AC
Split Complementary — Base color + two adjacent to its complement
- #6667AB
- #AC8968
- #8BAC68
Triadic — Three colors evenly spaced on the color wheel
- #6667AB
- #AC6869
- #69AC68
Monochromatic — Variations of lightness from the same hue
- #121221
- #363763
- #5B5CA4
- #9C9DC9
- #DEDEED
Closest Pantone® C colors
TCX is Pantone's textile system; these are the nearest print (C) codes from our library by Delta E (CIEDE2000). Lower is closer.
CSS
:root {
--pantone-coy-2022-very-peri: #6667AB;
}
.element {
background-color: var(--pantone-coy-2022-very-peri);
}