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Delightful Mocha Mousse
Pantone, the global color authority and provider of professional color languagestandards and digital solutions for the design community, unveiled the Color of the Year for 2025: PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse. It's an evocative soft brown that transports our senses into the pleasure and deliciousness giving usfeelings of contentment.
A warming rich brown hue - PANTONE 171230 Mocha Mousse nurtures with its suggestion of the delectable quality of cacao, chocolate and coffee, appealing to our desire for comfort every day. There is a growing movement to align ourselves more closely with the natural world. Characterized by its organic nature, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse honors and embraces the sustenance of our physical environment. Imbued with authenticity, this brown shade finds harmony and balance between the demands of modernity and the timeless beauty of artful creation.
For Pantone Color of the Year 2025, we look to a color that reaches into our desire for comfort and wellness, and the indulgence of simple pleasures that we can gift and share with others.
Being an extremely versatile shade, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse creates a uniform color base that adapts to a variety of applications, from minimalist to decorative, within the design and color space. With its warm and enveloping tone, it lends itself to creating elegant and welcoming atmospheres. PANTONE 171230 Mocha Mousse can be used as a primary color for walls, giving depth and intimacy to spaces, especially in living rooms and bedrooms. Combined with neutral tones such as off-white or light gray, it creates harmonious and refined contrasts. For a bolder touch, it can be combined with jewel colors such as emerald green or petrol blue, enhancing their elegance. In textiles, such as curtains, rugs and upholstery, it adds texture and warmth, while in dark wood furniture or bronzed metal accessories it recalls a timeless aesthetic. It is the ideal color to transform environments into comfortable refuges, where design and functionality meet.
Sophisticated and lush, yet at the same time a classic, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha extends our perceptions of the browns from being humble and grounded to embrace the luxe.
