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TL;DR Reliable leaker Evan Blass claims to know the Pantone 2026 Color of the Year, and it’s a color Motorola already uses.
Blass correctly predicted Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year ahead of its official announcement, which is expected to come next month for the 2026 iteration.
If this is the Pantone 2026 Color of the Year, Motorola could still release a limited-edition colorway of it for other Android phone models.
Motorola and Pantone have a running partnership that’s one of the more fascinating Android phone collaborations. Pantone, the color naming and validation company, works with Motorola to validate the displays and cameras on select smartphones.
The two brands also team up to deliver exclusive phone colorways, and we’ve seen Pantone-colored Motorola phones since 2022. Pantone picks a “Color of the Year” annually, and Motorola releases a special edition of a phone in that color. This time, Pantone’s 2026 Color of the year may have leaked, and there’s a twist.
According to a post by Evan Blass on X (formerly Twitter), the Pantone Color of the Year for 2026 will be “Lightest Sky” (via Notebook Check).
The color number code for Pantone Lightest Sky is 11-4804 TPG, and it’s described as a pale, muted grey-blue hue. What’s interesting about Lightest Sky is that Motorola already sells a phone in this color. The Motorola Razr (2025), the brand’s budget foldable, is available in the Lightest Sky color with a textured, light-refracting finish.
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