The December announcement of Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year — “Cloud Dancer” — will influence the palettes of industries ...

Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year reveals how design is responding to tech fatigue, emotional overload, and the search for ...

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, ...

Ahead of Pantone’s December 4 announcement of its 27th Color of the Year, explore the complete history of selections that have shaped design trends and reflected our collective mood. Pantone will ...

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 ...

The Pantone company built a business by standardizing the way designers and companies communicate about color. But one artist is challenging their color monopoly. The human eye can detect about a ...

Unlike Cloud Dancer, which doesn’t suggest a color family, other colors have revealed their appearance in the title: recent ...