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 ...

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 company best known for naming colors, has named the color of 2026. It’s white, or, more specifically, “PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer.” The company describes the shade (or lack thereof) as ...

The Cloud Dancer white represents a desire for finding calm and self-care, reflecting Pantone's research of societal values throughout 2025. Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering ...

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, 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 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — “A symbol of calming influence in a society rediscovering the value of quiet reflection.” That’s how Pantone describes its Color of the Year for 2026 — Cloud Dancer (11-4201). The ...

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 ...

For many years, before the COVID-19 pandemic and the social media-ification of trend forecasting—and trends in general—Pantone had a firm grasp on the design world with its annual christening of the ...

Dancer Gia Bella is among three artists tapped to ring in Pantone's 2026 color of the year. (all images courtesy Pantone Color Institute, unless otherwise stated) “The cacophony that surrounds us has ...