Benjamin Moore just announced their Color of the Year 2026 (the dark and mysterious Silhouette AF-655), and with that reveal came seven other hues the brand predicts will dominate interiors over the next few seasons. Known as the Color Trends 2026 Palette, each shade was painstakingly chosen during a lengthy process, according to Hannah Yeo, senior manager of color marketing at Benjamin Moore.

“Week after week, we were placing colors, adding colors, subtracting colors. We would come back the next day and ask, Does it still feel good? If not, we worked on it the next day,” Yeo describes. “So we went over weeks and weeks of that editing process, and we landed on eight colors that perfectly balance each other.”

Yeo explained that this year’s selections were divided into two categories:

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