It was about two weeks ago when I sent a personal design project to a few friends for some feedback.

Although I hadn’t exactly chosen the colour I used, it being a part of a theme and all, people were quick to praise it, one person going so far as to name it.

And that’s when I first learnt about Marrs Green, the world’s favourite colour.

“Aaaaa, no wonder everyone liked it!” I realised.

After a six-month global survey, the shade was chosen as the world’s favourite and named after Annie Marrs, a UNESCO worker from Dundee, reports The Telegraph:

Miss Marrs, a fine arts graduate said she picked the shade to match the rich blue, grey and green tones which ‘dance’ on the River Tay, in her home city.

The competition organised by Hull 2017 UK City of Culture and paper merchant GF Smith invited people to select their favourite shade online by hovering over an infinite palette of shades with their mouse until they landed on the colour they found most appealing.

Here’s Miss Marrs with a Marrs Green background:

I didn’t know about this competition, did you? Pfffft, global.

Well, yes, Sloane, it actually was global: the results consisted of the preference of 30 000 people across 100 countries.

Experts have since weighed in suggesting that although it is named green, the shade is in fact one of the blue variety. Peter Giles, a colour adviser at Farrow & Ball, said:

It’s almost a teal colour. We have a colour called Vardo which is more earthier compared to that but this is obviously more vibrant and bright; you could almost say it (Marrs Green) was more of an aqua colour.

It’s one of those that could be either green or blue depending on who you ask.

Mental Floss also had a point to make: the colour fits into Pantone’s colour of the year for 2017:

PANTONE 15-0343, or “Greenery,” is meant to signify “the re-connection we seek with nature.”

The paper company’s winning shade falls within that same category of soothing imagery associated with the outdoors.

Here’s how they made the colour:

It’s pretty cool to know just how “on trend” one can be, albeit completely accidentally.

[source:thetelgraph&mentalfloss]