How are E-Learning Designer’s Using the Pantone 2022 Color of the Year? #354

Using Pantone's 2022 Color of the Year #354: Challenge | Recap

It’s official! Pantone just announced its 2022 color of the year! That means e-learning designers worldwide will be working this happy and aspirational shade in their demos, courses, and templates.

Whether or not you love this year’s color, be prepared to see it everywhere. From fashion to beauty products to graphic and e-learning design, Very Peri will be the most influential colors over the coming year. And that’s what this final challenge of 2022 is all about!

How to Use the Pantone Color of the Year 2022 in E-Learning

Working with a new color can be challenging. To help you get started using this courageous color, Pantone created four color palettes. Each palette includes recommended color combinations to convey different moods.

You’re welcome to use any one of these color palettes for your template. Don’t feel like you have to use every color in the palette. Instead, pick three or four colors from a palette and use those as the basis for your designs. And if you really want to simplify your color palette, stick with tints and shades of Very Peri.

Working with Tints and Shades

One of the easiest and safest ways to create a color palette is to start with a base color and use tint and shade values for the secondary colors.

Tints are created by mixing white values with your base color while shades are made by mixing values of black.

Using a Single Color for Your E-Learning Courses

The tints and shades approach works so well, you could build an entire course using a base color and 2-3 tints and shades.

Tints and shades can be used to establish your type hierarchy and accent colors for graphic elements. Here’s a super quick mockup I put together using one of the illustrated templates from Content Library:

Challenge of the Week

This week your challenge is to design an e-learning template or interaction using Pantone's Very Peri. 

Your slides can be static or built out as working interactions. Your goal is to work from a single color and show how you will carry that color across your design templates.

NOTE: Your entry can be a rough concept to a polished example. The challenges are open to everyone, regardless of experience or skill level. If you need technical or creative help, let us know. Start a new post in the forums and reference this week's challenge.

Resources

Did you share an example in one of the previous color challenges? If you did, that’s great! Thank you.

Feel free to use that example as a starting point for this week’s color challenge. But, of course, there’s nothing wrong with reusing the same example with different color palettes.

To get an idea of what course designers shared in previous color challenges, check out the following challenges:

• 2014: Radiant Orchid
• 2015: Marsala
• 2016: Rose Quartz-Serenity
• 2017: Greenery
• 2018:  Ultra Violet
• 2019: Living Coral

• 2020: Classic Blue
• 2021: Illuminating

Share Your E-Learning Work

• Comments: Use the comments section below to share a link to your published example and blog post.
• Forums: Start  your own thread and share a link to your published example..
• Personal blog:  If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We’ll link back to your posts so the great work you’re sharing gets even more exposure.
• Social Media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness.

Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you dive into this week’s color challenge, take a look at the accessibility makeovers your fellow community members shared over the past week:

Accessibility Makeover Examples RECAP #353: Challenge | Recap

New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article.