PANTONE® 2025 Color of the Year: Mocha Mousse
What Is Mocha Mousse?
For 2025, the Pantone Color Institute has chosen PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse as its Color of the Year. This warming, rich brown hue is imbued with comforting qualities, evoking the delectable indulgence of chocolate and coffee while addressing our collective longing for ease and solace.
Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute, elaborates:
"Underpinned by our desire for everyday pleasures, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse expresses a level of thoughtful indulgence. Sophisticated and lush, yet at the same time an unpretentious classic, Mocha Mousse extends our perceptions of browns from being humble and grounded to embracing the aspirational and luxe."
Simple and Comforting: A Soft, Warming Brown
With its earthy elegance, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse can stand alone or serve as a versatile foundation, enhancing a wide range of palettes and applications. Whether in minimalist designs or richly detailed creations, this hue offers endless possibilities across color-driven industries like fashion, home décor, and jewelry design.
Create Moments of Everyday Luxury
Mocha Mousse empowers us to infuse our daily lives with subtle elegance and thoughtful indulgence. Its sensorial richness inspires us to create intimate moments of luxury, whether through a warm beverage, a cozy setting, or a handcrafted piece of jewelry. This shade celebrates simple pleasures—nature walks, sweet treats, or time spent with loved ones—that foster personal comfort and connection.
As Eiseman explains, Mocha Mousse embodies a “global mood of connection, comfort, and harmony.” Whether used in personal expressions or shared experiences, this shade reminds us of the beauty in simplicity and the joy of enhancing the everyday.
How Is the Color of the Year Chosen?
For 26 years, Pantone’s Color of the Year has captured the global zeitgeist, reflecting collective moods and attitudes while shaping trends across industries like fashion, jewelry, home furnishings, product design, and packaging. Each year, Pantone’s color experts meticulously analyze trends in entertainment, fashion, design, sports, travel, technology, social media, and nature to select a color that resonates with the spirit of the times. This program not only influences design choices worldwide but also fosters a dialogue between the design community and color enthusiasts, highlighting the deep and enduring connection between color and culture.
Working with Mocha Mousse in Your Designs
This warm, chocolatey tone offers the elegance of black with a softer, earthier appeal, making it a stunning neutral that pairs beautifully with whites and creams for a striking contrast. Jewelry designers can explore this hue in a variety of materials, including gemstones like smoky quartz, tigereye, goldstone, andalusite, autumn hickoryite, and chrysanthemum stone, as well as mocha-toned seed beads, crystals including Crystal Passions® and Preciosa, and wood beads.
Mocha Mousse is perfect for creating timeless and modern designs alike. For a classic look, pair smoky quartz or Mocha Mousse colored gemstones with mocha-tone crystals or creamy cultured freshwater pearls to achieve a vintage-inspired elegance.
For a sleek, Scandinavian aesthetic, combine mocha-toned wood beads with matte white seed beads in minimalist designs. Designers leaning toward a boho-chic vibe can mix tiger’s eye and autumn hickoryite with earthy greens and soft creams, while those looking to make a bold statement can use Mocha Mousse colored crystals as a focal point, surrounded by shimmering gold accents and crisp white elements. Layered necklaces featuring wood beads, chrysanthemum stone, and cream-colored leather or cord create a textured, earthy appeal.
This color’s versatility allows it to ground bold designs, soften vibrant palettes, and add warmth to cool-toned pieces, making it ideal for any jewelry style. Whether crafting statement jewelry or delicate everyday pieces, Mocha Mousse is the perfect addition to your bead palette for 2025.
Shop the Color
Explore products that capture the rich indulgence of chocolate and coffee—Mocha Mousse. Enhance your next jewelry project with crystal beads, seed beads, gemstones, and glass beads. This cozy brown color was chosen for our desire for comfort.
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