Pink: From blush to rose, ... off-whites and warm browns (think Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2025 – Mocha Mousse) ...

That’s the message from Pantone, the color experts, which named “Serenity” – a kind of baby blue – one of its two colors of the year for 2016. The other is Rose Quartz, a dusty pink.

Pink isn’t just pink, it’s phlox or blush. Beige isn’t beige when it can be sand or champagne. And brown certainly would never be brown when it could be cinnamon, tobacco or stone. Designers ...

That’s the message from Pantone, the color experts, which named “Serenity” – a kind of baby blue – one of its two colors of the year for 2016. The other is Rose Quartz, a dusty pink.