Colorado Springs studio shares identical title with Pantone’s Color of the Yr for 2026

Pantone Color Institute, a number one authority on shade, selects a shade of the yr yearly. For 2026, it’s “an airy white hue” they’re calling Cloud Dancer. 

“The cacophony that surrounds us has become overwhelming, making it harder to hear the voices of our inner selves. A conscious statement of simplification, Cloud Dancer enhances our focus, providing release from the distraction of external influences,” Pantone Color Institute Executive Director Leatrice Eiseman stated in a press release.

This tickled Josh Weber, a associate at Cloud Dancer Studio in Colorado Springs, who says he and his two companions, Dustin Larsen and Nick Canaday, named the video manufacturing firm after the road he lives on, Cloud Dancer Drive in Colorado Springs.

“I think that’s just a wonderful coincidence. It’s beautiful. That’s kind of cool. What an odd coincidence that is,” Weber stated in an interview throughout which he was instructed concerning the hyperlink between the title of the colour and the title of his firm. “That’s kind of neat. We like just weird, kind of offbeat, coincidences — things that just kind of happen.”

Cloud Dancer studios began out as a inexperienced display screen images sales space and has begun dabbling in movie. “We were just a green screen photography booth,” Weber stated. “We would go to Fan Expo, Denver Comic-Con or Colorado Springs Comic-Con, set up our green screen photo booth and people would come in, get their photo taken.”

Now, the three-person group has branched into producing quick movies. “We’ve just started learning how to do films, and we’ve made some short films. So we’ve done about four or five short films now,” Weber stated.

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The shade institute has up to date its chosen shade yearly. Last yr’s shade was Mocha Mousse, which the institute described as “a rich, warm, soft brown that evokes comfort, nature, and the deliciousness of chocolate and coffee.” 

Unlike Cloud Dancer, which doesn’t recommend a shade household, different colours have revealed their look within the title: latest colours like Peach Fuzz (a pale peach shade), Very Peri (a periwinkle blue), and Viva Magenta (a reddish shade), bring to mind the colour in query, whereas Cloud Dancer is much less suggestive of what it would appear to be. 

That’s most likely as a result of it’s simply as a lot a platform for a sense as it’s a visible look: “Similar to a blank canvas, Cloud Dancer signifies our desire for a fresh start,” in accordance with Vice President of Pantone Color Institute Laurie Pressman. “Peeling away layers of outmoded thinking, we open the door to new approaches. An airy white hue … Cloud Dancer opens up space for creativity, allowing our imagination to drift so that new insights and bold ideas can emerge and take shape.”

People should purchase merchandise, together with a writing journal, a espresso mug and Play-Doh within the Cloud Dancer shade, the twenty seventh chosen shade because the institute started choosing colours in 1999.