Color of the Year

Pantone's Color of the Year serves to inspire the forever shifting world around us. This year's color is Cloud Dancer 11-4201. Its a soft and pale off-white. Think clouds in the sky, cream in your coffee, or vanilla icing on a cake.

Pantone suggests that Cloud Dancer offers a symbol of calm in a noisy world. With so much going on in the world both politically and socially, there is an overwhelming need for a pause. Cloud Dancer offers time and space to take a beat and breathe. Even with our busy lives, careers, family and an array of media, we often need to remember that it is okay to stand still.

Pantone also offers the color choice as a blank canvas for innovation and creation. Just as toddlers love to tag wide open spaces with their bold crayon or markets, who doesn't begin to daydream and visualize when given the freedom to do so. This year, as we are swarmed by the negative realities and possibility, we could collectively take the mental space needed to think about long-term solutions. How can we make this world a better place, even if it's just for a moment. E ven if you are just the fashionista, take privilege and choose another bold color to take center stage as you grace the entrance in your creamy white. With Cloud Dancer, Sky is truly the possibilities.