We saw it all playing out eight months ago. Paint companies started rolling out their spring color palettes with an imaginative variety of browns, and we thus concluded that brown—yes, drab old ...

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 ...

Pantone has released a countdown clock for its annual Color of the Year announcement, set to be revealed on the morning of December 4. The color choice is widely used to shape decisions in numerous ...

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 ...