Color/Colour of The Year 2026
Pantone - Cloud Dancer (PANTONE 11-4201)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rdaniel-foster/2025/12/04/pantones-2026-co…
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Don Don
First time
First time this young lady posed and worked in studio. Just finished her Masters degree and is now pursuing her PhD.
Wojciech Grencer
Black Red Belly
Spotted close to walking trail in Ebor NSW. Intense body colour indicates recent skin shedding.
Quinn Kananack
Austin, Texas Blue Hour
Was down in Austin for a bit on a work trip. I've always heard how beautiful the skyline is from the river.
Was a little let down by the clouds, but what can I do!
4 Comments
Wonderful, Paul! Thank you for posting this. I check every year, but forgot about it this year. What do you think of the color?
Love the name/title Cloud Dancer (RGB conversion : R240, G238, B233) Sounds much like a whiter shade of pale. Some may find it challenging to work with I tend to find working within this tonal range exhilarating as you may see in my profile portfolio.
I usually wait till after the first of the year till I look for the new COTY but I was tipped of during an early news cast Friday morning. When I searched the media was a buzz with the choice from Forbes, NYT, too Smithsonian. With all pretty much reading the same must have been a Pantone press release. As I wrote another Fstopper “Pitch Black and Pure White only exists in the human mind”
Happy Cloud Dancing
Below are some examples of my work consisting of various shades of white not necessarily Cloud Dancer ... but easily could be.
I love that so many have commented on the subject complaining that white is not a color.
Apart from the fact that it's not true white I think ANY tone deserves its place in the spectrum.
BTW - funny fact. My wife chooses colors based on name and will not select ANY whose name she does not like.
We often come across scenarios where she likes the color of an object until she discovers the color name.........
So how does she feel about "Cloud Dancer"?