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 ...

For over twenty years, Pantone, through its Color of the Year program, has selected a color (or colors, 2021!) that reflects the latest color influences and highlights how what is happening in our ...

The world’s leading color authority, Pantone, just announced that its 2026 Color of the Year is 11-4201 Cloud Dancer and describes it this way: “A whisper of tranquility and peace in a noisy world.” ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...