Pantone has named 'Cloud Dancer' (PANTONE 11-4201) as its 2026 Color of the Year. The color is described as a natural, billowy white meant to evoke tranquility and peace. Cloud Dancer follows the 2025 ...

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 ...

Sometimes with color, less is more. That’s the word from global color authority Pantone, which named PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer its Color of the Year for 2026. Pantone says the billowy white shade ...

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 ...

When the Pantone Color of the Year is announced, it's not only an opportunity for people to appreciate the color chosen (or learn to love it if it's not a favorite). It's also a signal to explore ways ...

It’s hardly a colorful choice. Since 1999, Pantone, the global color authority and provider of professional color language standards and digital solutions for the design community, has announced their ...

CARLSTADT, N.J. — Pantone, an influential color standards company, has picked Cloud Dancer as its Color of the Year for 2026. Cloud Dancer is a soft, light white. This is the first time Pantone has ...

Since 1999, the Pantone Color Institute has chosen a "Color of the Year" annually, meant to inspire design revolving around said color. For 2026, they went with an off-white shade called "Cloud Dancer ...

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 ...

Pantone, the global color authority based in Carlstadt, just announced its color of the year. Let’s just say the internet is not impressed. The New Jersey company, considered a global authority on ...

Pantone’s color of the year is, simply, white. Officially, it’s PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer, a “billowy, balanced” white pitched as a balm for frazzled culture and a “conscious statement of ...