Mocha Mousse: Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year
Ways to Encompass Mocha Mousse into Your Landscape
The experts at Pantone wrote the book on color, and those of us in the design industry eagerly await the big reveal of the Pantone Color of the Year. Extensive thought is exercised during the selection process to choose a color that reflects an overall global mood and communicates a “collective desire in the form of a single, distinct hue.” Chosen to represent the common thread of a quest for harmony, this year’s color, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse, is a smooth, mellow brown that grounds us in nature. Reminiscent of the earth, muted stone, sandy loam, tree bark, or faded pecan mulch, this warm shade embraces the desire for comfort and connection within every aspect of our lives. Step into these grounding palettes with us as we explore the various ways to encounter the sensory experience of Mocha Mousse.
Practical Applications in Landscape Design
Mocha Mousse exudes a mindful element that anchors the design in warmth, embodying a feeling of connection with nature, ourselves, and others. Its stabilizing force is self-aware and in tune with the world around it in wonder.
Softscape
A particular advantage in our field is that this hue occurs naturally within our environment, providing a foundational backdrop. Still, we can echo it seamlessly throughout each landscape design with hardscape and decor selections in nuanced neutrals.
Hardscape
From protective pergolas and welcoming walkways to sophisticated stone and timeless tile, these nurturing chocolatey additions can add both indulgent and humble hues to the infrastructure of any landscape.
Decor
Mocha Mousse can also be layered with these elements by capitalizing on cozy throws, delicious fabrics, and fine furnishings and accessories for discreet, unpretentious cohesion.
Dedon’s Kida collection cradles its guests in luscious layers of warming hues and woven fibers.
How to Apply the Pantone Color Palettes
The Pantone Color Institute has developed five distinctive color palettes that harmonize with their chosen color of the year. From soft subtlety to vivid contrast, let’s muse over Mocha Mousse and conceptualize the design possibilities for each revitalizing palette.
Pantone Relaxed Elegance Palette
“Revel in your own special moments. From sweet treats to nature walks, the indulgence of simple pleasures that we can also gift and share with others.”
Elegant simplicity can be achieved through layers of luxe, neutral hardscapes and furnishings with subtle, surrounding greenery.
Pantone Floral Pathways Palette
“A cornucopia of suggestively scented floral tones, blended with a soft mocha and a shaded willow green, leads us down a cobblestone path.”
By combining ceramic tile and pastel blooms with a rich fence stain, tints of cornflower blue, wisteria, vanilla, and pistachio weave together a tapestry sweet enough to inhale its cheerful floral fragrance.
Uniquely Balanced Palette
“Mocha Mousse nestles in, offsetting the vibrancy of this uniquely balanced, multi-colored and somewhat exotic grouping of tones both warm and cool.”
Tantalizing turquoise tile, fabric, and pool water delight against a mocha deck and furnishings.
Mustard-accented pottery enlivens the gardens of this Mediterranean landscape.
Pantone Deliciousness Palette
“Tastefully tempting Mocha Mousse combines with other delicious hues in a delectable palette inspired by mouth-watering confections.”
Pink muhly grass can offer a soft, yet juicy contrast against rich mulch or soil.
A playful array of fiery plantings and grasses contrast against natural stone, rock, and ground cover.
Pantone Subtle Contrast Palette
“Sophisticated brown hues coalesce with nuanced contrasts of blue and gray for a classic and compatible statement.”
Luxe sapphire fabrics and textures and a dark pool bottom play against grasses, mulch, and lush trees.
Muted mosaic glass tiles harmonize with a canopy of trees for a sophisticated, classic design.
Consider the Whole Environment
Allow our designers to develop a unique palette for your plantings, outdoor decor, and entire aesthetic to create a cozy space that embraces comfort, community, and calm. We can even source and install soothing furnishings, pots, fabrics, and accessories that best suit your style. Contact us today to evoke the mood of Mocha Mousse into your gardens and build a budding relationship with nature.
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