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, ...

Pantone dropped its 2026 Color of the Year, and reactions were instant. The shade is officially called Cloud Dancer (PANTONE 11-4201)—a soft, airy white the brand describes as “calming and fresh.” ...

Pantone has chosen its 2026 Color of the Year, and depending on how you look at it, it could be colorless — or the reflection of every color. The "color?" White. Cloud Dancer (PANTONE 11-4201) to be ...

Pantone has announced its Color of the Year for 2026, and unexpectedly, it's white – an off-white, to be precise. PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer is a calming, ethereal shade that's not quite a brilliant ...

Pantone, the company best known for naming colors, has named the color of 2026. It’s white, or, more specifically, “PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer.” The company describes the shade (or lack thereof) as ...

Pantone choosing a shade of white for the 2026 Color of the Year sparked progressive backlash over the weekend comparable to the reaction to the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad. On Thursday, Pantone, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year, Cloud Dancer, highlights the design power of off-whites. But lighting and undertones can make or break neutrals. Designers share their favorites. London-based Argent ...

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 ...