Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2025: Mocha Mousse

With a single brushstroke, an artist can reach deep into your heart, extending a branch from their imagination to yours. As any creator will tell you, sharing your passion with an audience is a rewarding experience, and when you dedicate time to mastering your craft, crucial elements start to stand out. These elements are key components that can be wielded to speak directly to the heart of your audience, subconsciously drawing them into the story you present. Colour is one such component. All by itself, a single shade has the power to upset or uplift an individual, evoking a personal history of memories and events associated with that colour. 

In the world of design, colour is a lifeblood. A simple message in an advertisement is brightened with a flash of yellow, while elsewhere, deep reds and browns are woven into a carpet to create an aura of opulence. A revolution in colour for designers came in the form of Pantone, an American printing company established in the 1950s. A name synonymous with the language of colour today, Pantone pioneered a colour-matching system in the 1960s. Through Pantone’s standardized shade-matching system, designers have been able to cross-check colours at the production stage across a range of industries, ensuring colour consistency across a variety of products. 

Since 2000, Pantone has made their mark on global colour trends by declaring a ‘Colour of the Year’ at the start of each year. This colour is handpicked to ‘capture the zeitgeist’ of the year and mark a moment in culture across the world. Pantone brings together colour enthusiasts from a range of industries, engaging them in discussions about colour psychology and colour trends until they come to a consensus. The goal is to capture the mood of the year, rather than to influence global trends. At the core of it, the colour of the year is about the link between a single colour and the emotion of a year. 

Late in 2024, Pantone declared that the colour of the year for 2025 was going to be Mocha Mousse. Representing luxury and indulgence, Mocha Mousse elevates the humble brown from an everyday colour to a symbol of aspiration and comfort. According to Pantone, this shade is “a warming, brown hue imbued with richness”, and it is infused with the “delectable qualities of chocolate and coffee”. The layers of meaning wrapped up in this single shade signify that Pantone’s panel of colour enthusiasts believe 2025 will be about extravagance, decadence, and indulgence - an opportunity to refine the mundane and to find small ways to spoil yourself. 

Pantone’s Colour of The Year permeates beyond culture, it also defines the year in design. This year, for home décor and interior design, Pantone’s Mocha Mousse will represent the synergy between sensations of warmth and comfort and the experience of opulence and glamour. Nourishment of the soul is the ethos guiding design this year, and Pantone suggests that home decor in the year of Mocha Mousse will lean into timeless, unpretentious classics and that furniture will be made of “more natural materials including wood and stone, rattan and wicker, leather and linen”.

What does all this mean for Obeetee? Well, as design and home decor enthusiasts with over 100 years invested in the preservation of tradition, we aim to blend the timelessness of our artistry with the ebbs and flows of current trends. In design, opulence and comfort have always been hallmarks of exquisite carpetmaking for us, so perhaps 2025 will instead be marked by the essence of Mocha Mousse, setting the tone for a glamorous and indulgent year. 

While our range of home furnishing and furniture encompasses a wide variety of shades and materials, our authenticity comes from a delicate balance of inspiration from global, contemporary art movements, and our traditional narratives. Explore our collections online at obeetee.in, or find us in person at our flagship stores located pan-India, in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru, and Pune.