🎨 Pantone Reveals Its Colour Of The Year For 2026

We didn't realise it was so controversial!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation. It seems that every dictionary has
had its word of the year. We've had Ai Slop,
We've had dare I say at six seven, we've had
all of that. We've now had Pantone release the color
of the Year. Pan Tone is a color institute. They
every year select the color of the year. In the past, like,
for example, last year, mocker Moose I thought he was

(00:24):
a wrestler. That was color of the year. Presumably peach
fuzz the year before, I've shaved off my chin. Every month,
we've had tangerine tango. In the past, we've had living coral.
So these these are specifically chosen to be color of
the year, which I'm sure is very influential in interior design.
Blah blah blah. This year, are you ready?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Has gray been in there?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Because everyone loves gray lately gray car I know, but
it just wouldn't The thing is, it wouldn't be called
It'd be fifty shades of shading or something. It wouldn't
just be called gray. So this year, are you ready
a drum roll?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Please?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
This year's color of the Year is cloud Dancer, which
is white white. And this is what they have said
about it a lofty white, neutral whose air rated presence
acts as a whisper of calm and peace in a
noisy world, et cetera, et cetera, A billowy white imbued
with serenity. It invites true relaxation and focus. I thought

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you put on your walls and allowing the mind to
wander and creativity to breathe, et cetera. So cloud, have
a look. It's just to my eye white. Yeah, because
my wife had a car and it was arctic white
and I love that. Real excuse me, that is not
cloud dancing. You know, there's fifty shades of white. There's

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a lot of water, of course there. Ah. This though,
has not been without its controversy. You wouldn't think color
of the Year could stir people up, But have a
listen to this woman. Her name is Darling Marcel, her
real name is Kathleen. She's a jewelry des she studies color,
she studies art, and she's furious that Pantone has chosen

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this color.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
But Pantone is a multimillion dollar business who deals in
the meanings of color. They are color experts and know
exactly what different colors feel like, and imply white neutral,
colors and minimalism have all long been on the side
of racism. The original intent of minimalism was to a
race culture. Many non white cultures are full of color

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and ornate designs of scale, minimalist all white designs have
long signified wealth status.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Thank you, so she's saying, and it goes on for ages.
She says, this is a dog whistle. This is reflecting
what people are seeing on the streets. We're trying to
get rid of people of color by choosing.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Color.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
I know, well, last year was Maka Moose. That's what
she's saying is the world has changed in this year.
It's white, Morga Moose last year white this year. I
thought this was just a hate chart. Silly old me.
The only one, the only white that you need to
know about is the white of Richie Benno's jacket, as
told by the Twelfth Man, the cream one, the bone,

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the off white, the white, the ivory on the bige.
Love Love. I could argue about that too. I could
listen to that all day.