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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...