Pantone has announced its highly anticipated pick for Color of the Year 2026: Cloud Dancer, a "lofty white" that is meant to provide a "calming influence in a frenetic society rediscovering the value ...

As Pantone goes light and airy with its 2026 Color of the Year, Cloud Dancer, some designers are betting on deeper, more decadent shades that feel both bold and comforting. A sophisticated, rich shade ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a German language podcast, a Leica shareholder and chairman dropped a bombshell that has sparked a frenzy of internet ...

When the color experts at Pantone announced Cloud Dancer as their 2026 Color of the Year, they predicted the shade would inspire a kind of cool calm. But the choice of Cloud Dancer, which Pantone ...

When selecting the 2026 Behr Color of the Year, the team behind the paint company challenged themselves with a task most pros would find near impossible: to choose a shade that not only appeals to a ...

A shade of white will be the defining color of the next year. Get those stain-removing pens ready. By The Styles Desk Pantone, the self-styled color experts, have been predicting a “color of the year” ...