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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes with color, less is more. That’s the word from global color authority Pantone, which named PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer its Color of the Year for 2026. Pantone says the billowy white shade ...

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 ...

As 2025's cultural retrospectives begin to trickle in (read: Spotify Wrapped or Oxford's word of the year), Pantone is not to be outdone. The famed color factory on Thursday, Dec. 4, released its ...

The Pantone Color Institute probably didn’t mean to kick off the new year with fighting words, but that seems to be what happened. “White is a conciliatory color,” Laurie Pressman, Pantone’s vice ...

The release of Cloud Dancer, the Pantone Color of the Year for 2026, has inspired a nostalgic look at Pantone’s picks from ...

CARLSTADT, N.J. — Pantone, an influential color standards company, has picked Cloud Dancer as its Color of the Year for 2026. Cloud Dancer is a soft, light white. This is the first time Pantone has ...

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” ...

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 ...

Available in a sleek white that channels Pantone’s Cloud Dancer, the Bose QuietComfort headphones are made to block out ...

The Cloud Dancer white represents a desire for finding calm and self-care, reflecting Pantone's research of societal values throughout 2025. Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering ...