Pantone Color of the Year 2025 Formula Guide
The ultimate color matching tool for communicating colors in graphics and print
Discover Pantone's best-selling guide to design inspiration, color specification, and print accuracy—now in a limited edition to celebrate Pantone's 2025 Color of the Year! This exclusive set of coated and uncoated color swatches comes in an elegant soft-touch cover in PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse.
PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse is a soft, moody brown that tantalizes your senses and evokes the deliciousness of cocoa, chocolate and coffee. This warm, rich shade speaks to your need for comfort while exuding subtle elegance and earthy sophistication. A touch of glamour combined with sensual warmth - perfect for inspiring your creativity.
Inside the guide you will find a page dedicated to Mocha Mousse: learn more about why Pantone chose this color for 2025 and discover the full history of Pantone's Colors of the Year.
The new version of the Pantone Formula Guide lets you share, compare, communicate and match colors. This versatile, comprehensive color matching tool represents all 2,390 market-relevant spot colors of the Pantone Graphics System on coated and uncoated paper. The latest Pantone Formula Guide has been expanded to include 224 brand new Pantone Matching System (PMS) colors and also includes five new environmentally friendly Pantone base mix colors that are compatible with coating in print production processes.
The handy, compact, on-the-go color guides provide you with easy visual references for the actual appearance of Pantone colors in digital design applications. They also contain important recipes for mixing spot colors to accurately reproduce the colors in the Pantone Formula Guide.
The most important features
- Provides consistent color reproduction in branding, logo design, marketing, packaging and other graphic design applications on a variety of different materials
- Portable, handy color charts allow easy reference on the go
- Versatile and holistically applicable tool - from design inspiration to print check
- Printed on the most common paper weights: 148 g/m² coated and 118 g/m² uncoated
- The lighting indicator page shows when the lighting conditions are suitable for a correct color assessment
- Considered the ideal tool for inspiring, coordinating and communicating colors in graphic design, digital design, product design and print
Colors
- 224 new, trendy, market-relevant graphic colors plus 5 new basic colors
- Includes a total of 2,390 colors from the Pantone Graphics System color spectrum
- An improved printing process ensures greater color accuracy
- Pantone colors are displayed with their corresponding numbers and color compositions
- The index at the back of the fan indicates the numerical position for each color
- Tolerance target < 2.0 ∆E00 to Pantone master standard reference data
areas of application
- For inspiration and production in the design of logos, branding and marketing materials, packaging and other applications such as architecture, industrial design and manufacturing
- The color compositions help printers to correctly reproduce Pantone spot colors on printed materials
- Used worldwide to communicate consistent colors throughout the workflow and supply chain
