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5 Pantone Colors of the Year: Very Peri, Viva Magenta, Peach Fuzz, Mocha Mousse, Cloud Dancer

Pantone announced PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer, a calming white, as the Pantone Color of the Year for 2026. In this article, Archi-living.com guides you through the five Pantone Colors of the Year: Very Peri – 2022, Viva Magenta – 2023, Peach Fuzz – 2024, Mocha Mousse – 2025, and Cloud Dancer – 2026. These beautiful colors inspire our design ideas. Let’s discover more about them.

Very Peri – Pantone Color of the Year 2022

Very Peri - Pantone Color of the Year 2022, Olenka Design, Archi-living.com
Photo: Olenka Design

Discover more about Very Peri, the blue color with a violet-red undertone, Pantone Color of the Year 2022, whose courageous presence inspires inventiveness and creativity. PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri is a dynamic periwinkle blue hue with a vivifying violet-red undertone. Blending the faithfulness and constancy of blue with the energy and excitement of red, this happiest and warmest of all the blue hues introduces an empowering mix of newness.

Evocative of a new modernity, PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri injects a sense of playful freshness into home interiors, enlivening a space through unusual color combinations. Very Peri is suited for many materials, textures, and finishes, providing a pop of color, whether introduced through a painted wall, accent furniture, or home décor, or acting as an intriguing and eye-catching accent in a pattern.

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Viva Magenta – Pantone Color of the Year 2023

Viva Magenta - Pantone Color of the Year 2023, Talenti, Archi-living.com
Photo: Talenti

Viva Magenta 18-750, Pantone’s Color of the Year 2023, is rooted in beautiful nature and descends from the powerful red color family. This brave and fearless color represents a decorative expression of strength and energy. Viva Magenta vibrates with vim and vigor, thus writing a cheerful lifestyle narrative and promoting a joyous and optimistic celebration of design trends. Powerful and empowering, the Color of the Year 2023 is an animated red, reveling in pure joy and encouraging creative experimentation and self-expression via all forms of design and decorating.

Enjoy a joyful and optimistic Viva Magenta, Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2023. Bring the power of this nature-inspired bright crimson red into your home design. A velvet couch or lacquered wall in trendy Viva Magenta, for instance, brings the full power of this joyful color to interior design. A lighting fixture or floral arrangement in the Color of the Year creates a pop of color in a neutral dining or living room.

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Peach Fuzz – Pantone Color of the Year 2024

Peach Fuzz - Pantone Color of the Year 2024, Archi-living.com
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A compassionate and nurturing soft peach shade, conveying a heartfelt kindness, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz marked the 25th anniversary of the Pantone Color of the Year program. This lovely color captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. It’s a velvety, gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body, and soul. Subtly sensual, Peach Fuzz, Pantone Color of the Year 2024, is a heartfelt peach color that brings a feeling of tenderness and communicates a message of caring and sharing, community, and collaboration.

Introducing soft and cozy PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz into home interiors creates a welcoming ambiance. A heartfelt color, Peach Fuzz conjures up an air of calm, offering us a space to be, feel, heal, and flourish. Promoting feelings of gentle warmth, whether appearing on a painted wall, in home décor, or acting as an accent within a pattern, Peach Fuzz infuses our most personalized worlds with a comforting presence.

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Mocha Mousse – Pantone Color of the Year 2025

Mocha Mousse - Pantone Color of the Year 2025, Archi-living.com
Photo: the Development and Herring & Herring 

PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse is an evocative soft brown that transports our senses into the pleasure and deliciousness it inspires. A warming, rich brown color, Mocha Mousse, Pantone Color of the Year for 2025, nurtures with its suggestion of the delectable quality of cacao, chocolate, and coffee, appealing to our desire for comfort.

A rich brown infused with sensorial warmth, Mocha Mousse blends our desire for comfort and opulence to present a tasteful touch of glamour. An earthy, refined brown PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse nourishes our senses. Sophisticated and lush, Mocha Mousse evokes a feeling of the comfort of home, whether appearing on the flooring or a painted wall, within home décor or in more natural materials, including wood and stone, rattan and wicker, and linen.

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Cloud Dancer – Pantone Color of the Year 2026

Pantone Color of the Year 2026: PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer, Archi-living.com
Photo: the Development

Pantone introduced PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer, a billowy white imbued with a feeling of serenity as the Pantone Color of the Year for 2026. Like a blank canvas, Cloud Dancer symbolizes our desire for a fresh start. Peeling away layers of outmoded thinking, we open the door to new approaches. Cloud Dancer quiets the mind, encouraging true relaxation and focus that allows the mind to wander, and creativity to breathe, making room for innovation.

With its expansive presence, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer invites a space where function and feeling intertwine to build atmospheres of serenity and spaciousness, providing a refuge of visual cleanliness that inspires well-being and lightness, whether introduced in furniture or furnishings throughout the home. Infused with serenity, Cloud Dancer introduces a spa-like atmosphere to bathrooms and creates an open and spacious kitchen. A key structural color, white adapts, harmonizes, and creates contrast, bringing a sense of airy lightness to all product applications and environments, whether used on its own or combined with other colors.

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Colors inspire our designs. Enjoy creating color-rich interiors. 🙂

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By Danica Maričić

Interior Designer and Integrated Marketing Communications Pro, Loving Writing and Photography, Passionate about Life & Style, “True Blue” Mediterranean Girl, Curious Traveller & Designer