The new color trend report from RAL Colors is entitled "Know + Improve". The new color palette combines warm and cool, restrained and striking, forward-looking and historically inspired nuances. Stronger contrasts also take into account the needs of people with impaired vision and color blindness. All shades can be freely combined with each other and are suitable for a wide range of applications - in architecture and interior design, in automotive and fashion or in graphic print products and user interface design. The current trend report is characterized by the values "mediating, informed, nuanced, focused, open and adaptive".
Ten new colors are added
"This year, our color trend report once again focuses on a combination of inspiration and continuity," says Markus Frentrop, Head of RAL Colors. Five shades from the previous year have been retained and ten new colors have been added. All shades come from the RAL Design Systemplus, which enables systematic expansion and easy combinability, even with previous editions. The practical design tool, the RAL Trendbox 2026+ with 75 color and material samples, is also being offered for the third time.
Developed under scientific supervision
The trend report was once again created in close collaboration with the IIT Institute International Trendscouting at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim (HAWK). The RAL Trendbox was created in cooperation with Covestro, Object Carpet, Tiger and Gabriel.