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 ...

Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2026 has proven oddly divisive after the company picked a “billowy and balanced” shade of white for the first time in its annual selection. The color called “Cloud ...

Capturing the cultural zeitgeist and trends for the year ahead is a tricky business. But every year, the Pantone Color Institute chooses a color to do precisely that. And it has settled on a shade of ...

The 2026 Shade of the Year is Cloud Dancer, which is meant to symbolize "a calming influence in a society" On Dec. 4, Pantone announced its 2026 Color of the Year: Cloud Dancer (PANTONE 11-4201) The ...

Unlike Cloud Dancer, which doesn’t suggest a color family, other colors have revealed their appearance in the title: recent ...