Pantone's Cloud Dancer, the Color of the Year for 2026. Credit - Courtesy Pantone Pantone has named its eagerly anticipated annual color of the year for 2026, choosing a “billowy, balanced white” ...

Pantone has officially announced its color of the year for 2026 — and social media is… not having it. The color authority chose a crisp white hue called Cloud Dancer (Pantone 17-1230), describing it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 aims to make color standards more accessible for creatives via a limited-edition capsule fan guide on the global institute's strongest shades.

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 Choice, Cloud Dancer, is being read as everything from a soothing reset to a politically tone-deaf choice in a year marked by DEI rollbacks. Some have claimed that ...

Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year, Cloud Dancer, reflects growing tech fatigue and the uneasy truth about white paint: it promises calm but doesn’t always feel livable.