White light can be blinding, cold, unforgiving. Our physical reality often finds it too much as well, splitting it apart any chance it gets. Plants are green because such wavelengths of light help it ...

When the color experts at Pantone announced Cloud Dancer as their 2026 Color of the Year, they predicted the shade would inspire a kind of cool calm. But the choice of Cloud Dancer, which Pantone ...

Pantone has unveiled its color of the year for 2024: Peach Fuzz, a soft peach-beige that the company of color aficionados says is meant to embody "our desire to nurture ourselves and others." The hue ...

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 ...

For many years, before the COVID-19 pandemic and the social media-ification of trend forecasting—and trends in general—Pantone had a firm grasp on the design world with its annual christening of the ...

Non-boring beige is officially back. Meet Universal Khaki, paint brand Sherwin-Williams’s official pick for Color of the Year 2026, which the brand’s trend forecasters decided on alongside HGTV Home ...