Pantone Color of the Year 2025
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Capturing a Global Mood of Connection, Comfort, and Harmony
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 express a global mood and an attitude, reflecting collective desire in the form of a single, distinct hue.

For 2025, the Pantone Color Institute selects 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.
Underpinned by our desire for every day pleasures, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse expresses a level of thoughtful indulgence. Sophisticated and lush, yet at the same time an unpretentious classic, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse extends our perceptions of the browns from being humble and grounded to embrace aspirational and luxe.
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.

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 flavorful brown shade, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse envelopes us with its sensorial warmth. As a trend-led fashion color and a neutral rolled into one, this comforting brown brings us into harmony with an ever-changing world.
Authentic and approachable, rich and indulgent, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse is the perfect hue for “me moments”—however you define them. Redolent with the essence of cacao, chocolate and coffee, this sophisticated brown offers an everyday escape, a well-deserved treat.
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. We created five unique color palettes featuring PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse, each conveying its own distinctive feeling and mood. Within each of these five color stories we have also included four suggested color harmonies which you can download and share using Pantone Connect.

color palette | relaxed elegance

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.
color palette | floral pathways

floral pathways
A cornucopia of suggestively scented floral tones, blended with a soft mocha and a shaded willow green, leads us down a cobblestone path.
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Uniquely Balanced

Mocha Mousse nestles in, offsetting the vibrancy of this uniquely balanced, multi-colored and somewhat exotic grouping of tones both warm and cool.

Deliciousness

Tastefully tempting Mocha Mousse combines with other delicious hues in a delectable palette inspired by mouth-watering confections.

Subtle Contrasts

Sophisticated brown hues coalesce with nuanced contrasts of blue and gray for a classic and compatible statement.

PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse Brought to Life




Motorola
Connecting through Technology & Color
The combination of Pantone’s mastery of color and Motorola’s legendary design is defining a new era in phones that are more than tools; they are artistic design innovations, setting unprecedented standards for what it means to connect with one another.





Joybird
Indulge in what makes you happy
Aiming to redefine how neutrals are perceived, the exclusive Joybird x Pantone collaboration empowers you to embrace refined tranquility and indulge in what makes you happy through fabrics that are both aspirational and accessible.





Libratone
Find Your UP Moment
LIBRATONE X Pantone Color of the Year 2025, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse, to indulge you in new aesthetics of color and music. Embrace the serendipity and vitality of every moment in your life with ultra authentic acoustics.


Wix Studio and Pantone have teamed up to create the first-ever collection of web design assets in the Pantone Color of the Year 2025 PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse—a shade that captures the cultural shift towards slower living. The capsule empowers web designers to craft immersive sites that speak directly to the senses through texture, movement and responsiveness. Predesigned for creative momentum, but fully customizable for creative freedom, these assets are available exclusively on Wix Studio, for a limited time only.


Pura is revolutionizing scent design by pairing premium fragrances with smart diffusers to elevate spaces. As scent designers, Pura answers how we can translate color into scent and the impact fragrance has on our design experiences. In partnership with Pantone, Pura unveils an exclusive Pantone Color of the Year 2025 launch: the best-selling Pura 4 diffuser, matched to the hue, and two custom fragrances—Mocha Moments and Mocha Suede—creating a complete sensory journey.


As the ultimate beauty membership delivering the most viral, coveted makeup, skincare, and more to your door every month, IPSY is proud to partner with Pantone® for the Pantone Color of the Year 2025. The experts in beauty and the authority in color are bringing Mocha Mousse to life through limited-edition products inspired by the year’s defining shade. Dropping in April, this exclusive collection—including a makeup bag, brushes, and sponges—invites you to indulge in all your beauty cravings and express yourself in color.


Spoonflower’s partnership with Pantone for the Pantone Color of the Year 2025 brings together the authority in color and the authority in surface pattern design. Four distinguished Spoonflower Independent Artists have unveiled exclusive designs for print-on-demand wallpaper, fabric, and home decor—bringing Color of the Year to life. The creativity continues in January with two Spoonflower Pantone Color of the Year 2025 Design Challenges.


In partnership with Pantone, Post-it® Brand celebrates this legacy by embracing personal expression through color. The Pantone Color of the Year collection encourages harmony and individuality, allowing everyone to infuse their daily lives with Pantone’s thoughtfully indulgent hues. Celebrate simple pleasures and self-expression with Post-it® Brand and Pantone. While the Mocha Mousse Post-it® Note collection is not available for purchase, Post-it® Brand offers an array of vibrant collections – from Simply Serene to Summer Joy – waiting to be explored.


LIBRATONE brings the Pantone Color of the Year 2025, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse, within the elegant design of the UP headphones, harmoniously integrating color into form. This triggers a unique emotional connection between music, our living environment, and social relationships. When a comfortable wearing experience, balanced sound expression and harmonious color presentation interact, we believe that our sensitivity to the environment and creativity in life will burst forth from the depths of our souls.


TEALEAVES, the luxury tea purveyor, renowned for its commitment to the artistry of crafting exceptional blends, unveils a bespoke tea– inspired by Pantone Color of the Year 2025, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse. Each cup whisks you away on a delightful journey of warmth and indulgence. Velvety, rich cocoa unfolds in a decadent symphony, offering moments to savor life’s simple pleasures. Thoughtfully blended to balance Earth’s harmonious elements with comforting micro-farmed Himalayan chamomile, aromatic cinnamon, and restorative dandelion root.


“I dream in color,” says Jyotika Jhalani, founder, creative director and “cashmere alchemist” of the luxury cashmere brand Janavi. Tapping into generations of Kashmiri heritage, the Delhi-based company is crafting exquisite cashmere shawls that enfold the wearer in the cocooning warmth of Pantone Color of the Year 2025. Deep and dimensional, Janavi’s shawls are a perfect fit for the textural complexity and personal luxury of PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse.


Soulful. Sustainable. Sophisticated. Oyuna Tserendorj’s eponymous cashmere brand shares an essence with Pantone Color of the Year 2025. Oyuna is creating cashmere pieces for PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse that radiate a simple elegance—indulgences that feel like a necessity the moment you experience them. Inspired by the centuries-old traditions of her native Mongolia and the fresh modern sensibility of London, Oyuna creates coveted pieces that both a mother and daughter would wear.


Society6 is an artist-driven e-commerce retailer selling wall art, home decor, accessories, and apparel, where design comes first and there’s a style for every personality. Society6 offers unique designs from hundreds of thousands of independent artists from around the world, and every purchase made pays an artist. Each item is made-to-order and artist designs are available on more than 75 premium products, including art prints, throw pillows, curtains, rugs, iphone cases, bedding, and more. Discover more at society6.com.


The combination of Pantone’s mastery of color and Motorola’s legendary design is defining a new era in phones that are more than tools; they are artistic design innovations, setting unprecedented standards for what it means to connect with one another.


Aiming to redefine how neutrals are perceived, the exclusive Joybird x Pantone collaboration empowers you to embrace refined tranquility and indulge in what makes you happy through fabrics that are both aspirational and accessible.
Artist Spotlight
The intrinsic harmony of PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse is inspiring creators across a range of industries and mediums. Discover how three such leaders are using it in their newest work.

Capsule Eleven
Designer and Founder

Melke
Designer and Founder

Hunter LaMar
Musician