With the new year just weeks away, the color experts at Pantone have declared 2026’s official Color of the Year is “Cloud Dancer.” Cloud Dancer is “a billowy, balanced white imbued with a feeling of ...

Following a year of invigorating Viva Magenta, Pantone Color Institute trend forecasters felt it was time to dial down the intensity for the Pantone Color of the Year 2024 with a softer hue that ...

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 ...

When “Cloud Dancer” was first announced as the Pantone Color of the Year for 2026, there was more than one complaint. Online critics felt the slightly off-white shade was politically tone-deaf at best ...