Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year: A natural choice

It’s not that Pantone intentionally pays tribute to the prolific java addiction, but its selection as the Color of the Year for 2025 has been brewing for months. Now we have an answer.

The New Jersey based company is Ground Central for color matching, the go-to entity whenever design, fabric, fashion, and interior palettes crave refinement. Each year they boost a color as a symbol of trending style, and for this year, the designation is “Mocha Mousse.” It’s every bit as creamy and earthy as it sounds, and it’s a departure from past years honoring vibrant or chic retro hues.

We love their courage and acknowledge the importance of such a basic tone. Pantone points out the ever-changing appreciation for basics, noting the mocha-based color has infiltrated an organic move toward neutrals in clothing. They put it this way: “A trend-led fashion color with a rich neutrality, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse extends our perception of brown, crossing from the humble and earthbound to the luxurious and aspirational.”

Apply that theory to interior décor, as interest in low-profile reflects in basic style to colors in furnishings, rugs, light fixtures, and wall art.

To explain the multi-sector reach and reliance on Pantone, consider it consults more than 10 million worldwide designers and producers to settle on not just an annual marquee, but year-round respect for what consumers want. They employ technology to hit on consistency as their specific hues apply in a consistent manner, easing the challenge of blending across the board.

A characteristic of the 2025 color choice has roots in skin tones, diverse and beautiful. Minimalism appears to be a desired factor in this nature-inspired tone, unpretentious and genuine. Its influence on organic brown takes into account everything from skin to soil, basic neutrality to simplicity. Mocha Mousse reflects subtle sophistication, extending it to join the vast palette of all colors as a reminder to respect the warmth.

Consider weaving this Mocha Mousse color into infrastructure and interior walls, as well as select decorative fare. Treatments from matte to sheen bring out the powerful inspiration of a color you’ll embrace throughout the upcoming year and beyond.

And don’t ignore its obvious relationship with comfort beverages. Coffee to cocoa, it all counts.

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