Each year, Pantone selects a Color of the Year to encourage conversations around the relationship between color and designers, brands and consumers. For 2024, which marks the 25th year the program has ...

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 ...

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 ...

The choice by Pantone to make a white shade called Cloud Dancer the 2026 color of the year has been met with swift backlash online from color enthusiasts who’ve slammed the decision as a boring and ...

Designers give their Pantone 2025 Color of the Year predictions. Clues from the fashion, interior design and tech worlds inform their choices. Color consultant Laury Rosenthal displays paint samples ...

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 ...

Reliable leaker Evan Blass claims to know the Pantone 2026 Color of the Year, and it’s a color Motorola already uses. Blass correctly predicted Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year ahead of its official ...

In a departure from recent years of rich, saturated hues, PANTONE has named Cloud Dancer – an ethereal, airy white […] ...

Pantone has chosen its 2026 Color of the Year, and depending on how you look at it, it could be colorless — or the reflection of every color. The "color?" White. Cloud Dancer (PANTONE 11-4201) to be ...