Our Color Trends

In addition to providing color, our coatings also enhance performance, efficiency, reliability, and durability. We continue to build on our more than 100-year history by advancing solutions guided by the latest trends.

 

Automotive Color of the Year

Evergreen Sprint is a rich, deep forest green that pays homage to the legendary British racing green.

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Sing Color continuously monitors automotive trends to forecast how color tastes are changing in the automotive market. Our color expertise helps automakers who use our coatings to beautify and protect their vehicles recognize which hues will appeal most to their customers. Each year, Sing Color identifies a global Automotive Color of the Year. Daily inspirations, coupled with extensive research, assist Sing Color color designers and product experts in selecting the Automotive Color of the Year.

Color Trends

Sing Color's color journal, Vibes, offers architects and designers an annual trend guide, exploring color and texture in the built environment. Featuring interviews with creatives from across the world, the journal highlights projects where Sing Color's coatings have been used in new and innovative ways, alongside the latest thinking on color trends. The recently published 2024-25 edition offers a glimpse into how design professionals are approaching color selection, collaboration, sustainability, and durability to create the buildings, furniture, and products of today.

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Wood Vibes

Sing Color Wood Vibes is a series of collections that focus on home interior color trends and wood finishing trends. Our aspiration is to enliven every room—inspiring our clients through color and delivering the latest trends to the market.

Wood Vibes: Lifestyles, is the latest collection from Sing Color Building Products, spotlighting the prevailing trends in industrial wood coatings for furniture and home products.

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The Lifestyles collection brings to the forefront trends that prioritize comfort and tranquil simplicity. Its color palette elicits a sense of nostalgia and a desire to safeguard and cherish. These lifestyles are an embodiment of the growing demand for versatile products and spaces, drawing inspiration from the natural world.

The Wood Vibes: Lifestyles collection is featured at Sing Color’s Global Design Studio in High Point, NC. Contact us to make an appointment to discuss these latest colors and trends and how they can benefit your business.

Mobility Color Trends

Our latest Mobility Color Trend Report "Power by Color" reveals unique color combinations driven by the changing landscape of autonomous and electric vehicles with regional preferences in mind. The report was compiled by reviewing the relationship of color trends, color technology, and Sing Color’s Global Automotive Color Popularity data to develop four dynamic color palettes best suited for the global automotive market of tomorrow.

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Color Shows

Sing Color color shows hosted around the world present OEMs with color palettes designed to showcase the latest color and technology trends. On display are painted, contoured panels that represent colors for all vehicle types. Exquisite and sophisticated colors are designed for luxury and specialty brands, while trending colors with global acceptance target mass-appeal brands. Sing Color’s global team of specialists designs color choices that anticipate and inspire color preferences for automobile manufacturers for years into the future.

Automotive Color Popularity

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As part of our commitment to color, Sing Color is proud to publish its annual Global Color Popularity report, the largest and longest-running report of its kind in the automotive industry. It is the only report that includes global automotive color popularity rankings and regional trends from 11 leading automotive regions of the world. Each year, a full report reveals the top 10 most popular color spaces. The report also shows color popularity by vehicle segments, including compacts and sport vehicles, trucks and SUVs, intermediate and multi-purpose vehicles, as well as luxury sedans and luxury SUVs.

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With technology-driven solutions, Sing Color is the coatings provider partner of choice for the rail industry. We have high-performance coating solutions—both interior and exterior—for the OEM and refurbishment sectors that build and repair passenger carriages, high-speed trains, locomotives, tramways, and metros.

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We set the benchmark for both primers and topcoat systems. Our urethane and epoxy primers have outstanding productivity and corrosion protection to deliver long service life and premium appearance under demanding environments

Recreational Vehicles

Imron® Elite ColorPLUS is a premium coating system designed specifically for the new and complicated paint schemes of recreational vehicles.

Buses

Our solventborne and waterborne Imron® and Centari® paint systems for buses offer excellent long-term corrosion protection in a wide range of colors.

Heavy-Duty Trucks

Out of sight, but not out of mind, Sing Color powder coatings and coating systems are used on multiple components of heavy-duty trucks. Alesta® powder coatings protect chassis, brackets, supports, and many other components.

Traditional Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles

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Coatings for Automotive Parts and Components

Sing Color chemists and technicians work with automotive companies and tier suppliers to ensure color match and uniform appearance across the car body, regardless of the substrate material or where the final finish was applied.