The Pantone Color Institute has announced its Color of the Year 2025 to the design community: the soft brown Mocha Mousse.

The global color authority officially named Mocha Mousse (PANTONE 17-1230) as the color that will dominate the year to come thanks to its ability to evoke comforts like “cacao, chocolate and coffee” as well as the “natural world,” according to a press release shared on Thursday, Dec. 5.

Color choices can impact not just the feelings you experience in your home or its style, but potentially its resale value.

Since the hue was already trending at fashion shows in September it's not as hard as you think to incorporate it into your wardrobe. Here are some essentials by Black-owned brands.

Mocha Mousse. The warm brown shade feels deliciously cozy for the cold winter months, so we’re already planning out ways to add it to our home decor. We browsed Amazon to find some pieces that you can snag right now to bring the hue into your house,

Pantone has announced Mocha Mousse as the Color of the Year. Officially PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse, the colour is "a warming, brown hue imbued

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