Stay on Trend With PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse (Pantone Color of the Year 2025)
Feb 1, 2025
Every year, the Pantone Color Institute selects a hue that encapsulates the global zeitgeist, influencing trends across fashion, design, and culture. For 2025, Pantone has unveiled "Mocha Mousse" (PANTONE 17-1230) as its Color of the Year. This warm, rich brown evokes comforting elements such as cacao, chocolate, and coffee, reflecting a collective desire for comfort and indulgence.
Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute, describes Mocha Mousse as "sophisticated, lush, and unpretentious," embodying thoughtful indulgence and a balance between modernity and timeless beauty.
Its earthy tones align with the ongoing trend of "quiet luxury," emphasizing subtle elegance and comfort over ostentation.
In interior design, Mocha Mousse offers versatility, pairing well with natural materials and shades like cream, off-white, and pale blues. It creates inviting and soothing spaces, suitable for upholstered furniture, clay vases, and wall paint.
In beauty, this hue is making waves, particularly in nail trends, offering a lighter, warmer alternative to darker browns, and is expected to dominate manicures throughout the year.
Mocha Mousse extends our perception of browns, presenting a tasteful touch of glamour. Its selection reflects a craving for calm and a penchant for "little treat culture," bringing a comforting aesthetic to both fashion and home environments.
As we embrace 2025, Mocha Mousse invites us to indulge in its warmth and sophistication, influencing various aspects of design and daily life.
"For Pantone Color of the Year 2025, we look to a mellow brown hue whose inherent richness and sensorial and comforting warmth extends further into our desire for comfort, and the indulgence of simple pleasures that we can gift and share with others."
Leatrice Eiseman
Executive Director Pantone Color Institute
More than 10 million designers and producers around the world rely on Pantone Products and Services to help define, communicate, and control color from inspiration to realization—leveraging advanced X-Rite technology to achieve color consistency across various materials and finishes for graphics, fashion, and product design. Pantone Standards feature digital and physical color specification and workflow tools. Read on to learn more about applying the Color of the Year 2025 across various industries, determine color values across our color systems, explore palettes and color harmonies, and more.
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