Pantone has announced its highly anticipated pick for Color of the Year 2026: Cloud Dancer, a "lofty white" that is meant to provide a "calming influence in a frenetic society rediscovering the value ...

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 ...

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 ...

Against that backdrop, Pantone’s choice of white felt [at first glance] almost anticlimactic. Another white? In a year shaped ...

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 ...

Pantone has released a countdown clock for its annual Color of the Year announcement, set to be revealed on the morning of December 4. The color choice is widely used to shape decisions in numerous ...

In a colorless move that, Pantone says, speaks to our collective longing for calmness, a clean slate, serenity, and focus, the New Jersey-based global color authority named Cloud Dancer — a billowy, ...

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 ...