Pantone named its lightest Color of the Year to date on Thursday: Cloud Dancer (11-4201), a neutral with a narrative that’s all about wiping the slate clean. The off-white shade was chosen as a ...

The global color authority has selected a “warming rich” hue for its 26th Color of the Year Getty Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2025 is a big win for quiet luxury lovers! The global color authority ...

The 2026 Shade of the Year is Cloud Dancer, which is meant to symbolize "a calming influence in a society" Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Ahead of Pantone’s December 4 announcement of its 27th Color of the Year, explore the complete history of selections that have shaped design trends and reflected our collective mood. Pantone will ...

The old adage of eschewing white after Labor Day is officially over. Today, Pantone announced that 2026’s Color of the Year is their 11-4201 Cloud Dancer, a soft shade of bright white evoking Kazemir ...

Each year, since the turn of the millennium, word arrives from on high: Pantone, the self-described world's authority on color, announces its Color of the Year. On Thursday, Pantone declared "Mocha ...

But for the first time ever, Pantone’s color is essentially a non-color. Or you could call it every color. Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year is a white. In Pantone language, that’s code 11-4201—aka ...

As 2025's cultural retrospectives begin to trickle in (read: Spotify Wrapped or Oxford's word of the year), Pantone is not to be outdone. The famed color factory on Thursday, Dec. 4, released its ...

Reporter Pantone has named its eagerly anticipated annual color of the year for 2026, choosing a “billowy, balanced white” named Cloud Dancer. The self-described “global color authority” claims that ...

The shade follows predecessors Mocha Mousse, Peach Fuzz, Viva Magenta and Very Peri Pantone named Cloud Dancer, a serene white neutral, as its 2026 Color of the Year The shade symbolizes calm, ...