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10th December 2024

Stop Hating on Pantone’s “Mocha Mousse” Color of the Year

Colour can be a serious topic but “colour of the year” – well, not so much. Pantone, the colour technology company, positions its 2025 colour, Mocha Mousse, thus: “it expresses a thoughtful indulgence … an unpretentious classic”. Keeping a straight face, an architecture publication promises that the colour “as an amuse-bouche accent wall [will] add a pop of sophisticated vibrancy”. Wow! The above writer, though, is on a different thought track.  Why do so many people look at brown and “liken it to poop”?