If you were to pick one color to define the next twelve months, white may not seem like an obvious choice. Yet in a surprising turn, Pantone's Color of the Year for 2026 is 'Cloud Dancer': a luminous ...

Cross-industry color authority, Pantone, has been naming a Color of the Year since 1999, selecting an annual hue that reflects the direction of product design as well as broader cultural sentiments.

Pantone's Cloud Dancer, the Color of the Year for 2026. Credit - Courtesy Pantone Pantone has named its eagerly anticipated annual color of the year for 2026, choosing a “billowy, balanced white” ...

The old adage of eschewing white after Labor Day is officially over. Today, Pantone announced that 2026’s Color of the Year is their 11-4201 Cloud Dancer, a soft shade of bright white evoking Kazemir ...

The choice by Pantone to make a white shade called Cloud Dancer the 2026 color of the year has been met with swift backlash online from color enthusiasts who’ve slammed the decision as a boring and ...

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 dropped its 2026 Color of the Year, and reactions were instant. The shade is officially called Cloud Dancer (PANTONE 11-4201)—a soft, airy white the brand describes as “calming and fresh.” ...