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's color of the year for 2026 is Cloud Dancer, a 'billowy white' that is meant to bring calm to a chaotic world ...

Capturing the cultural zeitgeist and trends for the year ahead is a tricky business. But every year, the Pantone Color Institute chooses a color to do precisely that. And it has settled on a shade of ...

The world’s leading color authority, Pantone, just announced that its 2026 Color of the Year is 11-4201 Cloud Dancer and describes it this way: “A whisper of tranquility and peace in a noisy world.” ...

Enter the three 2026 Colors of The Year. They range from neutral to bold and all have myriads of possibilities to both ...

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 ...

During the fall season, paint companies release their predictions of colors that they think will be in demand in the upcoming year. For 2026, colors trends are leaning towards calming, earthy, and ...

Since Pantone began naming its Color of the Year in 2000, we’ve seen two flavors of both brown and yellow, three variations of purple, blue, and turquoise, and four distinct takes on orange. But for ...