Pantone names its Color of the Year for 2026

Channel 3000 News/CNN ^ | December 4, 2025 | CNN Bitter LOSERS

[for-q-clinton]

Dang I had my money on “French Fry Yellow”

[Jolla]

Wife designs large closets for people with too much stuff and too much money, white-grey is very popular. Its nice but a bit too institutional looking for my taste, I like the central american bright colors.

[BitWielder1]

Men can see 16 colors, women can see thousands and they have names for all of them.

[noiseman]

The institute, which is considered a leading authority on color, forecasting trends and advising brands, described the shade as “a billowy, balanced white imbued with a feeling of serenity.”

As technology’s grip on daily life tightens, Cloud Dancer represents a “calming influence in a frenetic society, rediscovering the value of measured consideration and quiet reflection,”

Oh man, that takes made up pretentious BS to new heights.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I was always taught that strictly speaking white is not a color.”

White is the absence of color...

[Hot Tabasco]

Personally, I prefer blue

[econjack]

Some people have WAY too much time on their hands...

[22for22]

Wow - thanks for posting - that’s not very white to my eyes

[Bon of Babble]

White is not a flattering color for many people.

I am not a fan of all-white kitchens, which I read yesterday are on the “outs” with interior decorators.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[CtBigPat]

Cloud Dancer? Of course that would be a pony name.

https://my-little-universe.fandom.com/wiki/Cloud_Dancer

[kaktuskid]

We used to call that color “Navajo White”...Politically incorrect nowadays I guess.

[Jamestown1630]

I once painted my apartment with a color called, ‘Antique White’. The walls had previously been a slightly grayish white that was less warm much cooler.

The difference was amazing; the whole tone and feeling of the apartment changed.

[Jamestown1630]

‘Cloud Dancer’ aside, there are many whites and they are different and have different effects. See post 33.

[mewzilla]

It’s a gutless pick.

Color me unsurprised.

[9YearLurker]

Not exactly:

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/design/discover/is-black-a-color.html

[Hatteras]

When building spec homes, we used what was commonly referred to as “Relocation Beige” :-)

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

It just looks like another shade of grey to me.

[GaltAdonis]

If I remember correctly ’Cloud Dancer’ is the name of a fictitious designer drug
from a William Gibson science fiction novel.

[MayflowerMadam]

I wonder what the RBG formula is. I love all the different shades of white when it comes to paint.