When the question of what will define 2017 comes up, the response most often includes words like “Trump” and “populism” and “division” and “anger.”

“Green” — not so much.

Yet if you believe the team at the Pantone Color Institute, which calls itself the “global color authority,” green will be everywhere in 2017. Not just any old green, of course: Pantone 15-0343, colloquially known as greenery, which is to say a “yellow-green shade that evokes the first days of spring.”