Pantone Color of the Year 2025

Pantone Color of the Year 2025 Mocha Mousse

For 2025, the Pantone Color Institute selects PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse, a warming, brown hue imbued with richness

The Pantone Color of the Year program engages the design community and color enthusiasts in a conversation around color, highlighting the relationship between color and culture. Pantone selects a color each year that captures the global zeitgeist—the Color of the Year expresses a global mood and an attitude, reflecting collective desire in the form of a single, distinct hue.

For 2025, the Pantone Color Institute has selected PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse, a warming, brown hue imbued with richness. It nurtures us with its suggestion of the delectable qualities of chocolate and coffee, answering our desire for comfort.

Simple and Comforting: A Soft, Warming Brown

With its sophisticated, earthy elegance, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse can stand alone or serve as a versatile foundation, enhancing a wide range of palettes and applications—from minimalist to richly detailed designs—across all color-focused industries.

PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse Color Palettes

A versatile shade infused with inherent sophistication and earthy refinement, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse creates a strong chromatic foundation, complementing diverse applications, both minimalist and richly decorated, across design and all color conscious industries. Five unique color palettes have been created featuring PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse, each conveying its own distinctive feeling and mood. Within each of these, five color stories are included along with four suggested color harmonies which you can download and share using Pantone Connect.

Revel in your own personal luxury

With a subtle elegance and sensorial richness, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse empowers you to create moments of luxury that may be intimate in scale but can extend a sense of indulgence throughout the day.

A richly mellow brown infused with comforting warmth, Mocha Mousse is both sophisticated and grounding. Captivating in its coziness, this soft and warm hue is all about indulging and soothing the senses. Invite Pantone®’s 2025 Color of the Year—Mocha Mousse—into your home and your life with designs on wallpaper, fabric and home decor. The exclusive launch collection by Spoonflower independent artists Annette Brown, Danika Herrick, Gargi Panwar, and Holli Zollinger is available now.

Relaxed Elegance

Revel in your own special moments. Imbued with a sensorial richness, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse inspires us to curate experiences that boost personal comfort and wellness. From sweet treats to nature walks, the indulgence of simple pleasures that we can also gift and share with others.