Cloud Dancer & Graphite
3-color palette · hex codes and a ready-to-copy AI image prompt
- Cloud Dancer
- #F0EEE9
- Bone Grey
- #CFCAC1
- Graphite
- #2B2A28
A warm white only looks deliberate when something sets its temperature: the grey mid-tone proves it is off-white rather than a printing error, and the graphite gives the eye somewhere to land. Pantone named Cloud Dancer its 2026 Color of the Year, the first white in the programme's history, and most of the year's minimal work is built on this same three-step value ladder.
Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer · Color of the Year 2026
AI image prompt
Hex codes are baked into the prompt. For Midjourney, attach the square reference image below first — palettes hold far better with a visual reference.
Empty gallery corner finished in #F0EEE9 plaster, #CFCAC1 polished concrete floor, one slim #2B2A28 steel bench, soft north-facing daylight, long quiet shadows, architectural interior photography, subtle film grain, muted --ar 4:5
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