Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is historic and, technically, not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
The choice is not a matter of “defaulting to white,” says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. Instead, Cloud Dancer signifies a blank canvas, “opening up new avenues and ways of thinking.”
