Color of the Year 2025 – Mocha Mousse: simple and comforting

The Pantone Color Institute has chosen the Color of the Year for 2025: PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse – a warming, brown hue imbued with richness. The coffee tone is predicted to dominate the design industry over the next 365 days. 

It nurtures us with its suggestion of the delectable qualities of chocolate and coffee, answering our desire for comfort. Mocha mousse is a progression of last year’s color of the year: Peach Fuzz, which reflected the need for comfort and coziness. 

Aside from the actual hue of the color selected, the name of the shade also plays a significant role in the feeling Pantone is trying to evoke. Mocha mousse—which evokes the image of a light, whipped delicious treat—best describes the “warming, rich brown hue” that people imagine when they dream of comfort. 

«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» – said Laurie Pressman, Vice President of the Pantone Color Institute. 

The color is also an expansion of the neutral shades that are «genderless» and «practical,» said Pressman. «Browns fall into this. And this is a foundational shade, a versatile shade,» she adds. «This is a color that's honest. It's authentic. We believe in this. It's a color we see in nature. We know it's real.» 

Previous Pantone Colors of the Year