Color trend report RAL Colour Feeling 2025+

The new color trend report Colour Feeling 2025+ from RAL Farben offers 15 selected trend colors. This time, the color palette of the current trend report focuses on the circular economy and regenerative design and is supplemented with a collection of materials.

This year's RAL color trend report Colour Feeling 2025+ stands for contemporary architecture and design. In trade, commerce and industry, the 15 selected color tones form an indispensable basis for 2025 and beyond. The color palette responds to current themes, motivates change, supports project-oriented design and helps to build resonant relationships with the environment.

The current trend report from the Bonn-based color experts focuses on the circular economy and regenerative design. The palette for 2025+ builds on the past and looks to the future: 5 colors have been deliberately adopted from the previous trend palette, two colors have already continued since 2021 and have established themselves as new classics. The colors can be flexibly combined with each other and thus enable customizable design. At the same time, all colors come from the RAL Design System plus, which means they can be used in a context-related manner and systematically supplemented.

According to RAL, the coming years will be characterized by familiar shapes and a colour palette of stabilizing colors as well as lively, motivating nuances with a high proportion of bright colours. Relaxation areas will be designed to be calming and tactile, while colorful focal points will promote creativity and communication. Complemented by fresh accents, earthy surface tones create lively combinations, while an inclusive, targeted and empathetic choice of colors leads to identification and well-being. A targeted and responsible color selection based on the RAL color trends for 2025+ can have an emotionally and physically relieving and supportive effect.

New this year is the RAL Trendbox 2025+, which translates the current colors into 4 other design-relevant materials. In addition to the standardized RAL single color samples, the box also contains plastic color samples from Covestro, powder-coated metal from Tiger Coatings, carpet samples from Object Carpet and textile samples from Gabriel.

"With our current trend report, we are once again offering designers support this year with regard to the design of the future," says Markus Frentrop, Global Head of the RAL Colors business. "The innovative trend box, which was created in close collaboration with our cooperation partners, is a physical expression of this year's Care + Collaborate theme. At the same time, together with other foundation members from the German Design Council, we have succeeded in communicating our close connection to design to the outside world."

With the current edition of RAL Colour Feeling, RAL is also continuing its close and long-standing collaboration with the Institute International Trendscouting at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim. Designer Timo Rieke, Professor of Color Design at the HAWK and Design Lead of the project, was once again keen to develop an application-oriented working tool for designers this year, which differs from other forecasts in that it shows concrete applications and conveys methods for designing in line with people's needs. The report aims to support sustainable design and be part of the transformative development of design.

"At the institute, we are working on making design with color comprehensible and, as far as possible, scientifically substantiated. We focus on people's needs and research the interaction between design and perception. Which color and material combinations have a relaxing effect, which are more stimulating and which colors facilitate communication? From a design perspective, color has a functional character with an emotional effect that should not be underestimated. Color and feeling are closely linked," says Timo Rieke. (OM-11/23)