Most popular colors in every decade of mankind are reflecting on our habits and our needs, the development of different industries, changes within our lifestyles, global politics and economy. With the fast development of technology all around us, revolutions are made in almost every segment of human life – music, film industry, cartoons, games, nightlife, food industry, the sex industry, and many others.

Shutterstock Inc is the leading global technology company providing us with licensed videos, music, photographs and vectors for commercial purposes in the advertising and media industry around the world. By matching pixel data with image download data, their research has revealed to us which are the top three colors which popularity is getting wider day by day.

Colors of the future are colors which used to give us a taste of futuristic society, flying cars, urban ecstasy nightlife, and virtual reality. It is time to accept that this future is already here, and we are at the epicenter of its creation. Virtual Reality is no longer an idea; it is technology developing faster every day, available under the fingertips of us all. 2019 is the year for new revelations, new experiences, and discoveries, and these are the colors that will guide us through it:

UFO Green #7FFF00

Shutterstock refers to this color as both “natural and supernatural”, bright shade of green that is cozy for our eyes with a glimpse of nostalgia and memories of fields and powerful nature, while at the same time this is the color for driving attention, techno dancing with techno music, an idea of something surreal, as it says in the name of the color.

Plastic Pink #FF1493

This color specifically marks the urban lives of a metropolis. Its popularity started growing in Japan and then spread all over the globe. This color still captures the feminine energy which was celebrated over the past century, while it also gives us the vibes of electronic-oriented generation – this color is getting in our hair colors and neon lights, spreading like a beat from city to city.

Proton Purple #8A2BE2

This purple is the color of virtual space surrounding us, the color of signals that we transmit from our devices with every step we take. Proton Purple lets us discover nature and the world around us with a new pair of eyes, sharing positive vibrations and creative energy among people. You can say that Proton Purple is the color of our heartbeat.

Shutterstock also did a research on most popular colors in 20 countries on the planet. To discover more about popular colors visit Shutterstock.com.

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Nina Petrov is an activist, poet, performer and mathematician. She communicates with the world mostly through words, movement and equations, but sometimes also by speaking very loudly. The only truth she could say about herself is that she keeps changing every day, never stops learning and interacting with her surroundings.