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Maximalists, rejoice: The “sad beige” era of interior design is officially over. We’re poised to embrace a kaleidoscope of eye-catching colors in 2026, at home and elsewhere. More and more, people are ...

Your home’s color scheme could come from a painting, a flower bed or even a shade of lipstick. A San Francisco family hired Noz Nozawa to decorate their townhouse with the rainbow as inspiration.

Edge Hill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. I knew there would be an argument. The room had gone eerily quiet. “Isn’t it about time,” my partner began, “that we freshened ...

In April, a team of researchers reported a device enabled them to witness an intense green-blue colour that had never been seen by humans before. After the announcement, they were bombarded by ...

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 named its lightest Color of the Year to date on Thursday: Cloud Dancer (11-4201), a neutral with a narrative that’s all about wiping the slate clean. The off-white shade was chosen as a ...

As 2025's cultural retrospectives begin to trickle in (read: Spotify Wrapped or Oxford's word of the year), Pantone is not to be outdone. The famed color factory on Thursday, Dec. 4, released its ...

With the new year just weeks away, the color experts at Pantone have declared 2026's official Color of the Year is "Cloud Dancer." Cloud Dancer is "a billowy, balanced white imbued with a feeling of ...

Capturing the cultural zeitgeist and trends for the year ahead is a tricky business. But every year, the Pantone Color Institute chooses a color to do precisely that. And it has settled on a shade of ...

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 ...