What the Sherwin Williams 2027 Color of the Year Means for Your Next Art Selection

Abstract image by Cartissi available from Booth Framing Arts

The Sherwin Williams 2027 color of the year is here. This year, ta-da!- it’s Celery SW 6421, an airy, herbal green with just enough yellow underneath it to feel warm instead of cool. It’s the kind of color that reads as a quiet reset rather than a statement, which is exactly why it’s worth paying attention to when you’re thinking through art selections for the year ahead.

Sherwin-Williams didn’t just name the color — they built a whole coordinating palette around it. Warm reds like Kirsch Red, soft yellows like Cocoon, dusty blues like Georgian Bay, warm neutrals like White Flour, and touches of deeper green like Artichoke all sit alongside Celery as part of its official “Curated Harmony.” That’s useful, because it means you don’t have to guess at what pairs — the palette’s already been worked out for you.

We pulled a piece from the catalog that happens to already live inside that palette: an abstract work from 1X – Pictufy, framed in a warm walnut. It carries coral-red, blush pink, soft mustard, and a whisper of powder blue, with a small thread of muted sage tucked into one corner. None of it is a literal match to Celery — and it doesn’t need to be. A single connecting note is often what makes a piece feel intentional next to a wall color, not a wall-to-wall color match. The rest of the palette is doing the work of tying the room together.

If you’re browsing for something similar, our catalog’s color filter makes this easy — search by primary and secondary hue and you’ll turn up pieces that echo Celery’s coordinating colors without hunting through thousands of images one at a time. It’s a small tool, but it saves the kind of time that adds up across a full project.

We spend a lot of our time thinking through these pairings before a client ever asks — because by the time you’re choosing art for a space, the walls and finishes are already set, and the framing has to hold all of it together without fighting any of it. If you’re already working Celery, or something in its family, into a space and want a second opinion on how a piece or its frame will sit against it, we’re always glad to talk it through.