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 ...

It’s hardly a colorful choice. Since 1999, Pantone, the global color authority and provider of professional color language standards and digital solutions for the design community, has announced their ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Reporter Pantone has named its eagerly anticipated annual color of the year for 2026, choosing a “billowy, balanced white” named Cloud Dancer. The self-described “global color authority” claims that ...

Pantone has officially announced its color of the year for 2026 — and social media is… not having it. The color authority chose a crisp white hue called Cloud Dancer (Pantone 17-1230), describing it ...