Pantone has introduced seven curated color palettes to help you incorporate the Pantone Color of the Year 2026: PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer, into your creative work.
Each color palette carries its own mood and character, seamlessly translating across fashion and accessories, beauty, home interiors, industrial design, and graphic or multimedia applications. Suggested color harmonies are included within each palette, all available to download and share through Pantone Connect.
1. POWDERED PASTELS
Pastel and neutral tones make compatible combinations to Cloud Dancer, offering subtle shifts in hue that are nuanced, pleasing, and understated.
Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Powdered Pastels Color Palette
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Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Powdered Pastels Color Palette – Textile Swatches & TPG Sheet
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2. TAKE A BREAK
Inviting us to take a break, Cloud Dancer tempts us to taste a variety of hues in whatever shade moves us; a fizzy Pink Lemonade or Papaya, delicious Caramel or Cocoa Crème, or a sip of Tea or a Mango Mojito-all making for a playful palette.
Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Take a Break Color Palette
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Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Take a Break Color Palette – Textile Swatches & TPG Sheets
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3. ATMOSPHERIC
Cloud Dancer lifts us to lofty heights where this diaphanous white breaks through grey skies revealing clear, breezy blues under a misted sunlight. Aqueous blue-greens emanate from the watery depths.
Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Atmospheric Color Palette
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Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Atmospheric Color Palette – Textile Swatches
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4. COMFORT ZONE
Everyone needs a comfort zone, a place to disconnect, to unwind and decompress. The natural and organic colors surrounding Cloud Dancer are embracing and inclusive, rendering a sense of reaffirming repose.
Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Comfort Zone Color Palette
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Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Comfort Zone Color Palette – Textile Swatches
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5. TROPIC TONALITIES
When we imagine the tropics, vivid colors come to mind: a turquoise ocean, sparkling citrusy refreshment, bright florals, and exotic birds. If there is a cloud in this sunlit paradise, it’s a billowy and buoyant Cloud Dancer.
Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Tropic Tonalities Color Palette
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Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Tropic Tonalities Color Palette – Textile Swatches
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6. LIGHT & SHADOW
Cloud Dancer gracefully blends into a veiled palette of softened hues that ultimately dissolve into shadowy shades, producing an easy and effortless contrast in color.
Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Light & Shadow Color Palette
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Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Light & Shadow Color Palette – Textile Swatches & TPG Sheet
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7. GLAMOUR & GLEAM
The yin of white inevitably meets the yang of black, accented by a sultry lipstick red. The glamour is heightened by vintage wine and teal, glimmering graphite, shimmering grey, and a silvery satin metallic.
Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Glamour & Gleam Color Palette
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Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
Glamour & Gleam Color Palette – Textile Swatches & TPM Sheets
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