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,

Ruxandra Duru is a color designer at Google and the creator of Color Moods, an online tool that lets you visualize color pairings based on the kind of mood you want to create. It’s no surprise, then, that her Color of the Year 2025 is a pair of colors.

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.

When Pantone recently announced Mocha Mousse as Color of the Year 2025, I made a beeline for its website (pantone.com), where I was greeted by a photo of a footed glass cup filled with chocolate mousse looking very luscious and precisely the same color as Dione Lucas's famous chocolate mousse.

Mocha Mousse is a departure from the much bolder Colors of the Year that Pantone has selected lately. For the last four years, the title has gone to bright, vivid hues including Peach Fuzz (2024) and Viva Magenta (2023). According to the New York Times, Pantone hasn't chosen a shade of brown as its hero color in over two decades.

The Pantone Color of the Year programme engages the design community and colour enthusiasts in a conversation around colour

For its evocative nature and warmth, PANTONE 17-1230 mocha mousse was selected as Pantone’s 2025 color of the year.

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