Using the colors of the year isn't essential, but learning about them is fun and trying them can add a contemporary and timely feel to your communications. Below is a short video tour of the colors of the year from 3 organizations, plus some ideas for how to use them.

As you'll see the various organizations have different opinions on what the most important color is and two of them (you'll see which ones when you watch the video) would work well as accent colors in church communications. For instructions on how to get the colors into MS Publisher, check out this video: How to get any color from the webs into MS Publisher. 

Below the video is a list of direct links for all the resources in the video.

Following are the live links to all of the sites shown in the video above.

This list is for Effective Church Communication Members Only, for information on how to become one, CLICK HERE.
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Links about Pantone's Color of the Year

http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/20854181/list/Best-Ways-to-Use-Radiant-Orchid--Pantone-s-Color-of-2014

http://www.pantone.com/pages/index.aspx?pg=21131

Benjamin Moore Color of the year:

http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/21212187?utm_source=Houzz&utm_campaign=u415&utm_medium=email&utm_content=gallery4

SHERWIN Williams color of the year

http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/21108135

Target Colors

http://www.target.com/c/bath-towels-home/-/N-5xtv9#?lnk=gnav_home_6_3&intc=829636|null

http://www.target.com/p/botanic-blush-collection/-/A-15033149#CollectionItems

Other fun new color inspirations

http://www.zazzle.com/purple_poppy_green_zizzag_chevron_birthday_cards-137997733558768048

http://patternbank.com/autumn-winter-2014-15-print-trend-report-part-1-pdf-download/