Pantone Color Institute's color of the year is 'greenery'

Amid social, political and environmental tumult around the world, the Pantone Color Institute recently plucked fresh and zesty "greenery" as the color of the year for 2017.

The vibrant green with yellow undertones is an answer, of sorts, to bruising 2016, signaling a yearning to rejuvenate, and to reconnect to both nature and something larger than oneself, says Laurie Pressman, the institute's vice president.

"It's a realization for many people," she said in an interview last Wednesday. "This country is politically divided, and we see that around the world. It's not just us. There's a real division in terms of globalization and this desire to pull back from globalization. It's Brexit. It's what we just saw in Italy."