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The selection is described as a "calming influence." The Pantone Color Institute has officially unveiled its 2026 Color of the Year. The Color Institute, a consulting service within Pantone, a design ...

For many years, before the COVID-19 pandemic and the social media-ification of trend forecasting—and trends in general—Pantone had a firm grasp on the design world with its annual christening of the ...

Pantone has revealed Cloud Dancer, a calming white shade, as the 2026 Color of the Year. Pantone has revealed Cloud Dancer, a calming white shade, as the 2026 Color of the Year. Pantone has revealed ...

With the new year just weeks away, the color experts at Pantone have declared 2026's official Color of the Year is "Cloud Dancer." Cloud Dancer is "a billowy, balanced white imbued with a feeling of ...

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 ...

With the world feeling chaotic, it makes perfect sense that many experts see 2026 as a time for rooted browns, naturally-inflected neutrals, and forest-adjacent greens that can provide a feeling of ...

Historically, purple has not been a democratic color. It rarely occurs in nature, so when people in the eastern Mediterranean discovered a purple dye 3,500-years-ago by crushing thousands of sea ...

Woke white women have been melting down over Pantone revealing its annual Color of the Year is a shade of white — with some raging that the choice is tone-deaf and is proof that the “whitewashing of ...

According to Pantone’s press release, this “is a discrete hue offering the promise of clarity.” In other words, it’s a reaction to the madness we’re living through. The company goes on to explain that ...