Pantone’s colour of the year and the promise of a fresh start |
In announcing “Cloud Dancer” as its colour of 2026, Pantone has floated a white so airy it practically hums with the promise of a fresh start. It is the colour of a primed canvas before the first stroke, a clear morning sky without — if one is in the national capital — the chokehold of pollution. The first ever shade of white to be chosen since Pantone began its annual forecasting in 1999, there is something subversive about championing a colour that refuses to stand out; an........