Here’s a consolidated look at every 2025 Color of the Year announcement from 15 color authorities and paint brands. Each year we track these selections to understand emerging trends and to compare how different companies interpret color forecasting. This roundup highlights the dominant palettes for 2025 and makes it easy to see where trends are shifting as we look toward 2026.
As with our previous guide covering 2024, we compare each brand’s selections and past picks so you can spot patterns. The 2025 announcements reveal clear themes — warm browns, caramels, deep purples and some saturated blues and near-blacks — and below we break down each company’s choice and what it signals for interiors and design.
What is the 2025 Color of the Year?
There isn’t a single universal color of the year. Multiple organizations — Pantone, Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams and others — each name their own color or color collections meant to capture the mood and direction of design for the coming year. These selections are informed by trends across interiors, fashion, product design and culture, and they often reflect broader themes such as comfort, optimism, or a return to nature.
What Were Last Year’s Colors?
Our full review of the 2024 colors shows the year was dominated by blues, warm neutrals and a few vivid corals. Many brands emphasized calming, soothing tones as people sought serene home environments. That context helps explain some of the 2025 choices, and offers a baseline for seeing how the palette has evolved.
Will 2025 continue the trend toward comforting, muted tones — or will brighter, more expressive hues take hold? Read on to see the full list and our observations.
Every 2025 Color of the Year
By January 22, the 2025 Color of the Year announcements were complete. Across these brands, brown, caramel and purple shades appear frequently:
- Pantone: Mocha Mousse
- Benjamin Moore: Cinnamon Slate
- Sherwin-Williams: Grounded (one of a nine-color Color Capsule)
- Behr: Rumors
- HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams: Quietude
- Glidden: Purple Basil
- Valspar: Encore
- Dunn-Edwards: Caramelized
- Dutch Boy: Mapped Blue
- Krylon: Hammered Black
- Rust-Oleum: Satin Warm Caramel
- Minwax: Violet
- Graham & Brown: Elderton
- C2 Paint: Raku
- Stainmaster Paints: Truffle
Below we examine each company’s pick, noting how the selection fits broader color trends for 2025.
Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year
Pantone named Mocha Mousse as its 2025 Color of the Year. Traditionally a trendsetter across industries, Pantone’s choice often influences fashion, product and graphic design as well as interiors. Mocha Mousse is a warm brown that references chocolate and coffee tones — a comforting, sophisticated hue that aligns with the warm, earthy direction many brands adopted for 2025.
Compared with some of Pantone’s bolder past selections, Mocha Mousse is relatively muted and versatile, fitting well into residential and commercial palettes.
Benjamin Moore’s 2025 Color of the Year
Benjamin Moore selected Cinnamon Slate, a blend of heathered plum and velvety brown. The brand describes it as quietly colorful — a restrained yet rich hue that mirrors the trend toward moody, warm shades in 2025. Cinnamon Slate pairs easily with neutrals and textured materials, making it a flexible choice for interiors.
The subdued but colorful quality of this shade fits well within the broader 2025 palette.
Sherwin-Williams’ Color of the Year
Sherwin-Williams commemorated their 15th Color of the Year with a Color Capsule featuring nine curated hues. The collection spans muted earth tones and more reserved saturated colors; since they listed Grounded first, that tone is often treated as the capsule’s central reference. The capsule’s intent is to offer multiple workable colors that reflect a grounded, earthy aesthetic for 2025.
While many brands name a single color, Sherwin-Williams’ capsule approach emphasizes versatility and curated combinations for whole-room palettes.
Behr’s 2025 Color of the Year
Behr’s pick, Rumors, is a deep ruby red with a moody, merlot character. It continues a recent move toward darker, richer tones in their palette choices and suits dramatic, cozy interiors where depth and atmosphere are desired.
Behr’s recent picks show a tendency toward bolder, more saturated colors compared with their earlier, softer choices.
HGTV Home’s 2025 Color of the Year
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams chose Quietude, a softened mint or sage that leans toward blue-green. The brand frames this shade as part of a “quiet luxury” trend: calm, relaxing spaces that still embrace color. Quietude is approachable and versatile, and it can read as subtle or bold depending on scale and lighting.
Compared to some of their previous, more adventurous picks, Quietude is a crowd-pleasing, tranquil option for many rooms.
Glidden’s 2025 Color of the Year
Glidden’s Purple Basil is a rich eggplant that encourages embracing deeper, more expressive color. The brand positions this hue within maximalist impulses — a call to use saturated purples unapologetically in interiors and accent pieces.
Valspar’s 2025 Color of the Year
Valspar selected Encore, a saturated cobalt-to-navy blue. This marks another blue-focused choice in the market, highlighting blue’s continued appeal as a stable, confident color for interiors and exteriors alike.
Dunn-Edwards’ Color of the Year 2025
Dunn-Edwards named Caramelized as their 2025 Color of the Year. This terracotta, clay-like tone functions as a warm new neutral that pairs with both vintage and contemporary finishes. It reflects the broader move toward earthy, grounded tones for 2025.
Dutch Boy’s Color of the Year 2025
Dutch Boy chose Mapped Blue, a timeless foundational blue that reads as classic and widely appealing. Blues of this type frequently appear in color-of-the-year roundups, offering a safe, enduring option for many homeowners.
Rust-Oleum’s 2025 Color of the Year
Rust-Oleum announced Satin Warm Caramel as their 2025 selection. Presented as rich and tranquil, this caramel tone pairs well with many palettes and is showcased primarily for accents and small projects, consistent with the brand’s spray paint focus.
Minwax’s 2025 Color of the Year
Minwax named Violet as its 2025 stain-of-the-year. This deep, eggplant-like stain signals a willingness to embrace more saturated and unconventional wood finishes, and it echoes the purple trend seen among several paint brands this year.
Graham & Brown’s 2025 Color of the Year
Graham & Brown selected Elderton, a deep brown inspired by elder trees. As a wallpaper and wall-covering company, they often pair a paint or wall color with an accompanying wallpaper design; Elderton complements their nature-driven motifs and reinforces the earthy, grounded direction seen across other brands.
C2 Paint’s 2025 Color of the Year
C2 Paint’s Raku draws its name from Japanese ceramics and shifts between burgundy and oxidized sanguine with brown and purple undertones. It fits squarely into the moody, layered color story many brands are telling for 2025.
Stainmaster Paint’s 2025 Color of the Year
Stainmaster’s Truffle is a near-black, versatile color they describe as elevating any space. With a limited palette available from their paint line, this deep shade aligns with the trend toward dramatic, moody interiors.
Because their paint lineup is compact, each Stainmaster pick carries more visual weight in their collection.
Our 2025 Color Predictions
We shared quick, informal guesses on social platforms ahead of the official announcements. Those informal picks sometimes align with brand selections — for example, near-black and deep-brown predictions matched several official choices such as Truffle and Hammered Black. Predicting color trends is as much intuition as it is pattern recognition, and this year’s results reinforced the shift toward warm neutrals and moody hues.
More Paint Colors We Love
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- The 12 Best White Paint Colors
- The Best Greige Paint Colors
- Benjamin Moore Edgecomb Gray
- Benjamin Moore Simply White
- Sherwin-Williams Pure White
- Sherwin-Williams Extra White
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