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.

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Pantone has named the “evocative soft brown” Mocha Mousse th. It evokes imagery of whipped chocolate and coffee.

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,

On Thursday, Pantone announced its 2025 color of the year: Mocha Mousse. Far softer than the “ Brat” green that dominated 2024, the shade is a nougaty brown that reminded Styles staff members of everything from luxury knitwear to swamp water.

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.

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.