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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The old adage of eschewing white after Labor Day is officially over. Today, Pantone announced that 2026’s Color of the Year is their 11-4201 Cloud Dancer, a soft shade of bright white evoking Kazemir ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The shade follows predecessors Mocha Mousse, Peach Fuzz, Viva Magenta and Very Peri Pantone named Cloud Dancer, a serene white neutral, as its 2026 Color of the Year The shade symbolizes calm, ...

The Pantone company built a business by standardizing the way designers and companies communicate about color. But one artist is challenging their color monopoly. The human eye can detect about a ...