Color Trends: Glaze Recipes and Suggestions for Bringing the Hot Colors Into Your Work Robin Hopper

If you like to pay attention to trends in color for wholesale orders or just to keep up on what buyers are looking at, today's post is for you.  In today's post, we  share some color trends and give some suggestions for developing these colors in glazes. This can also serve as a guide to which prepared ceramic glazes may be the right choice for you to jazz up your work. - Jennifer Poellot Harnetty, editor

Earlier this year, Pantone (known worldwide as the standard language for accurate color communication between designers, manufacturers, retailers, and customers, across a variety of industries) announced their biannual Home + Interior color forecast, which consists of nine color palettes and runs the gamut from muted tones to bright fluorescents -- a broad enough range for everyone to find something to like. These palettes are a go-to tool for many artists and designers who pay attention to industry trends.

Recipes!

Accompanying the Pantone palettes, we have pinpointed mineral choices for developing various colors in the glaze lab. Colors are listed with the various minerals needed to obtain them, approximate temperatures, atmospheres, saturation percentages needed, and comments on enhancing/inhibiting factors. A complete palette range can be found in Robin Hopper's The Ceramic Spectrum.