The wait is over! Pantone Color of the Year 2026

[StarSign]

I know none of you could sleep last night. 11-4201 Cloud Dancer

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/style/pantones-2026-color-of-the-year-cloud-dancer.html

 

[Boudica]

There's a pay wall for the NY times. So I looked it up:
Pantone's color of the year for 2026 is Cloud Dancer, a 'billowy, balanced white' that is meant to bring calm to a chaotic world.
I'd call it off white, but "cloud dancer" sounds kinda fun.

 

[unclebun]

Seriously? 5% gray with just a faint hint of pink?

 

[Johnny Best]

Isn't that color kind of racist.

 

[Boudica]

Isn't that color kind of racist.

only if you choose to see it that way. I think it's ageist.

 

[ProSignTN]

I think it's pretty.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

Maybe Trump told them the color of the year for 2026 is white. Finally...

 

[Johnny Best]

only if you choose to see it that way. I think it's ageist.

Agest: showing or suggesting a belief that older people are debilitated, unworthy of attention, or unsuitable for employment.

 

[TradeBalanceBoss]

The year of WHITE -- reeeeeeee!!!!!

 

[GAC05]

Pantone is headquartered in New Jersey, so it's about time.

 

[MikePro]

white is the least racist of all the colors, as it doesn't rely on any pigments for its identity yet still reflects the entire spectrum
....and its pretty cooooool.

 

[Stacey K]

it would make a nice wall color

 

[Boudica]

it would make a nice wall color

I agree, it would look nice on walls. When we bought our house I repainted all the walls & ceiling "Ultra White". .... I have color commitment issues.

 

[TradeBalanceBoss]

I agree, it would look nice on walls. When we bought our house I repainted all the walls & ceiling "Ultra White". .... I have color commitment issues.

It makes everything nicer.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

Makes the neighborhood nicer

 

[MikePro]

well you live in texas
i've burned my ass on a hot tin roof plenty of times, and none of em were painted white.

 

[ProSignTN]

Painted a logo on a helipad several years ago. Burned my forearms numerous times on the dried black One Shot. The red was hot, but the black was nasty. You gotta love a job though where you're on top of a building and you're wearing swimming trunks. BTW, Dude lost his pilots license for lifting swimmers out of the water on a rope and letting them jump in the lake. It was a blast.