{"id":10716,"date":"2025-12-09T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=10716"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:00:42","slug":"pantones-color-of-the-year-receives-first-typographic-expression-courtesy-of-monotype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=10716","title":{"rendered":"Pantone\u2019s Color of the Year Receives First Typographic Expression Courtesy of Monotype"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Last week\u2019s announcement of the 2026 Pantone Color of the Year,\u00a0Cloud Dancer<\/a>, left many folks feeling positively nonplussed. Sure, white isn\u2019t even a color, but in a year where Oxford proclaimed that the word of the year was \u201crage bait<\/a>,\u201d it does seem like a\u00a0curious decision<\/a>, not to mention this incredibly lackluster\u00a0collab with Play-Doh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I mean, you have to go out of your way to make\u00a0Play-Doh<\/a>\u00a0feel like an empty yawn. They have a FUN FACTORY, goshdarnit!<\/p>\n

However, one partnership with Pantone marks a first for the color experts, as they turned to Monotype to handpick their first-ever typographic expression. As chosen by Monotype\u2019s Executive Creative Type Director, Charles Nix, Jensen Arabique is intended to balance the feeling of calm and simplicity one gets from the white hue.<\/p>\n