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The Pantone Colour of The Year 2025 is Mocha Mousse. A rich warm brown that is comforting and luxurious. It has an earthy yet sophisticated feel, that works well with natural materials and other neutral tones. Nourishing our senses. Let’s explore Mocha Mousse further…
Connection, Comfort, and Harmony
Pantone describe this chosen colour for 2025 as ‘Capturing a global mood of connection, comfort, and harmony’. Mocha Mousse (Pantone 17-1230) is warming and indulgent, a bit like coffee and chocolate.
“Underpinned by our desire for every day pleasures, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse expresses a level of thoughtful indulgence. Sophisticated and lush, yet at the same time an unpretentious classic, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse extends our perceptions of the browns from being humble and grounded to embrace aspirational and luxe.”
Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director Pantone Color Institute
Pantone Colour of The Year 2025 Palettes
The Pantone Colour of The Year is often seen across the design community and colour-focussed industries. From fashion, to interiors, beauty and even technology, it is a colour to watch out for throughout 2025.
Pantone helpfully offer some colour palettes featuring Mocha Mousse. So if you are thinking of bringing this indulgent and versatile shade of brown into your next project, here are some options to explore.
Relaxed Elegance – Mocha Mousse blends with creams, beiges, tans, and chocolates.
Floral Pathways – Mocha Mousse accompanies soft greens, stone, cornflower blue, viola, and gentle rose.
Uniquely Balanced – Mocha Mousse offsets more vibrant purples, turquoise, teals, warm yellow, and terracotta.
Deliciousness – Mocha Mousse combines with sweet pinks, juice reds, and warm oranges.
Subtle Contrasts – Mocha Mousse joins dusty greys, beiges, darker teals, and neutrals.
Where to Use Mocha Mousse?
Furniture
Explore furniture in various brown tones or tints that encapsulate the look and feel of Mocha Mousse. Try rich leather, smooth wood, earthy rattan, soft fabrics that work in harmony together with their surroundings. Think comfort and nourishing the senses, yet refined and sophisticated.
Flowers & Foliage
Pantone mention Mocha Mousse is a tasteful touch of glamour and represents thoughtful indulgence. Simple pleasures we would gift and share with others. What better way than using florals to bring these sentiments into your space (or someone else’s).
To capture the Mocha Mousse theme, try working with dry look flowers and foliage from one of the colour palettes. Soft pampas grasses, roses, hydrangeas, and sprays in neutrals, pinks, and beiges, with soft greens of the leaves and browns of the stems. Opt for artificial varieties so they will last and last.
Soft Furnishings & Accessories
Add a sensorial warmth, comfort, and a touch of luxury with soft furnishings and accessories. Use the Mocha Mousse palettes to play with colours of cushions and throws. Nourish the senses with textures of different materials from cosy wool and earthy linen, to opulent silks and luxurious faux fur.
Extend the colouring into accessories too. From dusty pink and brown glass vases and darker wooden bowls (perhaps filled with chocolate treats for that everyday indulgence). Don’t forget you can work the Pantone Colour of The Year 2025 into your outside space too. Earthy brown buddha head statues with moss touches and terracotta colour plant pots are a great start.
So, why not treat yourself to some Mocha Mousse inspired items in your home or workplace? Bring the sentiments of thoughtful indulgence, harmonious comfort, and feeling of contentment through into your interior design project or event.
“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.”
Laurie Pressman, Vice President of the Pantone Color Institute