A Fresh Canvas for a New Era
For the first time in its 26-year history of the Color of the Year program, Pantone has selected a shade of white as its defining hue for 2026. PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer – a billowy, balanced white imbued with serenity marks a profound shift in our collective consciousness toward clarity, calm, and conscious simplicity.
This ethereal shade is more than just a colour trend; it’s a cultural response to our increasingly frenetic world. Cloud dancer is a shade that can adapt, harmonize, and create contrast, bringing a feeling of airy lightness to all product applications, whether making a standalone statement or combined with other hues.
Cloud Dancer Across Industries: Neelikon’s Versatile Solutions
As one of the world’s top three manufacturers of high-quality legislated colourants, Neelikon is uniquely positioned to help brands across diverse sectors embrace the Cloud Dancer aesthetic. Our FDA-certified, globally compliant colour solutions enable manufacturers to capture this trend with precision and purity.
Cloud Dancer in Food & Pharmaceutical Applications
Cloud Dancer aligns perfectly with clean-label foods, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceutical formulations by symbolising clarity and quality.
Neelikon offers a robust portfolio of white solutions designed for functional performance and regulatory reliability, including:
- Neelilake White Lake
- NFDC White FD 19
- NFDC Titanium Dioxide
- White Pigment Titanium Dioxide Free
These colour solutions help manufacturers address evolving market expectations while maintaining visual uniformity, stability, and global compliance.
Cloud Dancer in Cosmetics & Personal Care Industry
In the cosmetics and personal care industry, Cloud Dancer resonates with the growing demand for minimalist aesthetics, sensorial elegance, and “quiet luxury.” White is no longer just a base—it enhances textures, luminosity, and premium appeal across beauty and personal care products.
Neelikon supports this evolution with an extensive range of cosmetic-grade white and effect pigments, including:
- Lavanya Chaandni (Anatase and Rutile grade)
- Titanium Dioxide Dispersion
- Lavanya White ST-105
- Neelilake White Lake
- Ready-to-use Pastes (CTB & CO based)
- Silver Pearlescent Pigments and Mica
From soaps and lotions to colour cosmetics and premium personal care products, Neelikon enables brands to translate Cloud Dancer’s serenity into tactile, visual, and emotional experiences.
Partner with Neelikon for Cloud Dancer Excellence
As we enter 2026, Cloud Dancer invites us all to pause, reset, and reimagine our relationship with colour. It’s not about emptiness or absence – it’s about creating space for what truly matters: clarity, creativity, and authentic connection.
At Neelikon, we’ve built our reputation over 40+ years on delivering “One World, One Quality” colourants that meet the most stringent global standards i.e. USA, Japan, Europe, China, JECFA and India as applicable.
Whether you’re formulating premium foods, developing pharmaceutical solutions, creating cosmetic innovations, or designing consumer products, Neelikon’s Cloud Dancer-ready colour solutions offer Global Compliance, Unmatched Purity, Technical Expertise, Consistent Quality, Comprehensive Range: From water-soluble dyes to pigments, lakes, and specialty formulations.
Let Cloud Dancer inspire your 2026 product innovations. Contact Neelikon today to explore how our world-class colourants can help you capture this defining trend with precision, purity, and peace of mind.
Visit www.neelikon.co.uk or write to us at info@neelikon.co.uk.
