Posted on 12/05/2024 7:13:51 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Pantone has named an “evocative soft brown” its color of the year for 2025, continuing a tradition that has now run for more than a quarter of a century.
In a statement published Thursday, the global color specialist said Mocha Mousse was “a mellow brown infused with a sensorial and comforting warmth.”
“A warming rich brown hue, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse nurtures with its suggestion of the delectable quality of cacao, chocolate and coffee, appealing to our desire for comfort,” it added.
Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, said the color evokes “thoughtful indulgence.”
“Sophisticated and lush, yet at the same time an unpretentious classic, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse extends our perceptions of the browns from being humble and grounded to embrace the aspirational and luxe,” she said in the statement.
Laurie Pressman, vice president of the Pantone Color Institute, added that Mocha Mousse feeds into a desire for harmony.
“With that in mind, for Pantone Color of the Year 2025, we look to a color that reaches into our desire for comfort and wellness, and the indulgence of simple pleasures that we can gift and share with others,” she said.
Each December, Pantone names a color of the year for the following year, and this is the 26th time that it has done so.
To make their pick, experts at the Pantone Color Institute trawl through high-fashion runways, interior design trends, pop culture moments and human psychology.
The first Color of the Year was Sky Blue in 1999, while more recent choices include Peach Fuzz — “a light, fruity tone that conjures peace and serenity” — in 2024. and Viva Magenta — “an unconventional shade for an unconventional time” — in 2023.
Meghan Markle should be delighted.
‘Mocha Grifter’ *SNORT*
Congratulations on picking the most depressing color in the spectrum.
When’s the last time anyone has seen anything brown and said “wow that looks sharp”.....me either.
Uranus Brown-25 was a close #2......................
;^)
Kamala Emhoff in a bottle
To be known as “skid mark brown”.
Grocery bag brown (if you’re old enough)
I was hoping for Orange, but I wasn’t optimistic.
I do not mind those as accent colors but for the love of mike people. Stop being afraid of color. It will not bite.
She always looks like she needs a bath
When I dated a gal in home economics at ISU, she asked me if I knew why emerald green was the popular color that year. Being a dumb ag student I said I didn’t.
“That color was picked by a committee 5 years ago. then the dye makers went to work, the cloth makers, the designers, the marketers, etc.” fashion is created.
Folks, Trump picked the new fashion called MAGA 12 years ago. It has been a slow process getting it into the culture but it is here. It is our job to keep it popular.
If we don’t there is some one out there working on a new fashion that we won’t like. might be hula hoops.
Isn’t this the year of “peach fuzz”?
are we supposed to have a reaction?
This drives the marketing industry, especially clothing, but even remodeling, furniture, even paint colors.
Everyone feels the need to keep up with the *new* and *latest* fashion trends.
When we remodeled our kitchens, we ignored the current trend of gray. We did the first one in one house in natural maple, with Pergo flooring and a light colored countertop. We just happened to look online and the house recently sold, and it still has the same 25 year old kitchen that still looks great from the pictures.
The last house we sold also used natural maple cupboards and a dark countertop as contrast and it fits the old house very well. A modern kitchen in an old house just wasn’t going to work.
We never cared about style. That way nothing every goes out of style. Nobody is going to buy the house and grumble about the kitchen being gray that it’s so 2000’s, like the blue, pink, and yellow bathrooms from the 50’w and 60’s, or that horrible harvest gold, burnt orange, avocado green from the 70’s.
A million women to choose from
and Harry picked her...
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