When the color experts at Pantone announced Cloud Dancer as their 2026 Color of the Year, they predicted the shade would inspire a kind of cool calm. But the choice of Cloud Dancer, which Pantone ...

Buying a can of white paint seems like a straightforward task. It’s just white, right? But talk to any designer or paint expert and you’ll quickly learn that there is nothing simple about white paint.

White paint has been around since our prehistoric ancestors used a pigment made from ground calcite to render figures on cave walls. More than 17,000 years later, humans still like white paint — a lot ...