For many publications, tastemakers and overly serious Letterboxd loggers, December is a time to reflect and choose the absolute and objective best pieces of art they encountered in the preceding calendar year. The color namers at Pantone veer from the work of your Rolling Stones and Oxford dictionaries, taking in the year that was and forecasting the hue of the upcoming year.

Pantone’s prognosticators searched their hearts after the first year of Trump 2.0 and found that the color that would set hearts ablaze in 2026 was…white.

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Technically called “Cloud Dancer,” Pantone’s color of the year for 2026 is the terrifying face of a blank sheet of paper, the soul-crushing nothing of exurban townhome walls, the disorienting dazzle of a flash-bang hurled at protestors. But let’s let Pant

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