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 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 ...

New York Fashion Week’s fall installment will be a primarily virtual amalgamation, but that hasn’t dimmed its color forecast in the slightest. Reinvention and re-emergence are the driving forces, ...

Pantone has named its Color of the Year for 2026, and the choice is quietly telling. Dubbed Cloud Dancer, the soft, billowy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cloud Dancer, a soft, creamy white, that Pantone claims to channel calm, clarity, and a collective reset after years of chaos, will officially be 2026's color and some people are underwhelmed at the ...

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 is more than a color language for designers—it’s grown into a global design force. But is that good? The elaborate web of products represents the company’s strategic and unwavering quest to ...