Pantone Color of the Year 2025 Mocha Mousse

The awaited news of the year has arrived. Pantone Color Institute announced the color of the year that will set the trends next year. The color of 2025 is Mocha Mousse. This color nourishes us by suggesting the exquisite qualities of chocolate and coffee and responds to our desire for comfort.

In short, in 2025, everyone who wears brown and its shades and uses these colors in their home will be trendy. Even the chocolate-coffee combination can mean that you are trendy this year. Come on, you’re good again, it will be very easy to catch the color trend this year 🙂

Let’s take a closer look at why they thought this color was suitable for 2025 and what the Pantone team wanted to tell us with their choices. Then, let’s take a look at which colors you can combine Mocha Mousse, which blends the delicious qualities of chocolate and coffee, harmoniously and where and how you can use it.

What Does Mocha Mousse Color Mean?

When we hear from Pantone officials why they chose Mocha Mousse as the favorite color of 2025, we can better understand what this color means: Comfortable, classic, sophisticated, warm, timeless…

Brown can often be described as a comfortable and soft color. It is risk-free and adapts to anywhere. However, color tones can sometimes be more assertive. PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse color also offers a more earthy and sophisticated alternative. This color seems to have been chosen for a wide range of palettes and applications, from minimalist to richly detailed designs, across all color-focused industries.

Here are the comments of Pantone Institute employees about Mocha Mousse, the color of 2025:

Fueled by our desire for everyday pleasures, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse expresses thoughtful indulgence. Sophisticated and opulent yet an understated classic, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse expands our perception of brown from modest and down-to-earth to aspirational and embracing luxury.

Leatrice Eiseman,  Executive Director Pantone Color Institute

For the Pantone Color of the Year 2025, we are looking to a soft shade of brown whose natural richness, sensual and comforting warmth, further expands our desire for comfort and the indulgence of simple pleasures that we can gift and share with others.

Laurie Pressman, Vice President of Pantone Color Institute

In short, the message intended to be given by choosing Mocha Mousse: Global Connection, Comfort and Achieving a Balanced Mood…

What are Mocha Mousse Color Codes and Shades?

A versatile hue, PANTONE 17-1320 Mocha Mousse creates a strong chromatic foundation that complements a variety of applications, both minimalist and richly decorated, across all design and color-conscious industries.

You can use five unique color palettes, each reflecting its own feeling and mood, created by the Color Institute and including PANTONE 17-1320 Mocha Mousse, to follow fashion in 2025, especially to create a tonal harmony.

You can use the following color tones with Pantone’s color of the year 2025, Mocha Mousse (Pantone 17-1230):

• Pantone 11-4302 Cannoli Cream
• Pantone 13-1108 Cream Tan
• Pantone 15-1116 Safari
• Pantone 15-1317 Sirocco
• Pantone 16-1414 Chanterelle
• Pantone 18-1421 Baltic Amber
• Pantone 19-1216 Chocolate Martini

Colors Compatible with Pantone Color 2025

The colors listed above were colors that were close to Mocha Mousse. However, if you are wondering with which colors you can combine this color in a sophisticated way, whether in clothing, decoration or accessories, you can get support from the colors below.

• Pantone 16-0123 Tendril
• Pantone 16-4031 Cornflower Blue
• Pantone 16-3815 Viola
• Pantone 16-1511 Rose Tan
• Pantone 16-1407 Cobblestone
• Pantone 16-0632 Willow
• Pantone 11-0604 Gardenia

Of course, apart from these colors given by the color institute, it is also possible to combine different colors with the color of 2025.

How to Use Mocha Mousse in Home Decoration?

In fact, one of the most used and easiest to combine colors in home decoration is brown. Since Mocha Mousse is also a shade of brown, our job is very simple. You can get support from this color to create a warm atmosphere in the living room, kitchen, hallway, bedroom, bathroom…  In every area. But of course, I will share a few suggestions to get inspired through sample house images…