Since 1999, the Pantone Color Institute has chosen a "Color of the Year" annually, meant to inspire design revolving around said color. For 2026, they went with an off-white shade called "Cloud Dancer ...

Pantone has chosen its 2026 Color of the Year, and depending on how you look at it, it could be colorless — or the reflection of every color. The "color?" White. Cloud Dancer (PANTONE 11-4201) to be ...

Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year Choice, Cloud Dancer, is being read as everything from a soothing reset to a politically tone-deaf choice in a year marked by DEI rollbacks. Some have claimed that ...

Color was supposed to be back in. After a decade of white kitchens so bright they could sterilize surgical equipment, the design world finally rediscovered mood: deep greens, inky blues, earthen ...

Pantone has announced the official color of the year for 2026: a shade of white called “Cloud Dancer.” Also known as Pantone 11-4201, Cloud Dancer is “a billowy white imbued with a feeling of serenity ...

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, ...

A shade of white will be the defining color of the next year. Get those stain-removing pens ready. By The Styles Desk Pantone, the self-styled color experts, have been predicting a “color of the year” ...