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David Mouriquand

2026’s Colour of the Year is revealed – and not everyone's happy about 'Cloud Dancer'

We’ve had 2025’s Spotify Wrapped, Wikipedia’s most searched pages of the year, the most googled terms and several words of the year have been announced... Now it’s time to look ahead to next year and the colour that will apparently define 2026.

The colour of the year, as decided by the Pantone Colour Institute, is a very discrete hue of white known as "Cloud Dancer 11-4201."

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