X-Rite Incorporated, a global leader in colour science and technology, announced the official spectral colour value for Pantone Colour of the Year 2025: Pantone 17-1230 Mocha Mousse. This elegant and grounding brown tone is now available in PantoneLive, a cloud-based digital colour standard ecosystem. With X-Rite’s end-to-end colour management solutions, brands and manufacturers can immediately incorporate Mocha Mousse into their digital workflows for accurate colour specification, virtual prototyping, formulation, measurement, and quality control. This allows brands and manufacturers to meet consumer demand for high-quality, trend-forward products while streamlining their design to production workflows.

X-Rite brings Mocha Mousse to life

The colour is a versatile hue, ideally suited for apparel, footwear, home décor, cosmetics, and more. With X-Rite’s comprehensive digital tools, brands and manufacturers can bring this colour to life with exceptional precision and production efficiency.

Colour approval with textile colour hub

Traditional workflows for colour approval often involve multiple rounds of physical sampling, leading to delays and material waste. Using X-Rite's Textile Colour Hub, brands can select a colour from the PantoneLive library, such as Mocha Mousse, or measure a physical sample using a bench-top spectrophotometer, and load it into PantoneLive Private Library Manager to share with all stakeholders. Brands then create a Colour Specification Document that includes the spectral data for the specified colour, tolerances, and illuminant requirements. Using this digital data, suppliers can digitally formulate and submit the closest colour match for approval, eliminating the subjectivity and back-and-forth of physical samples and improving time to market.

Create virtual prototypes and digital material twins with Pantora

X-Rite’s Pantora desktop application enables manufacturers to create realistic digital material twins of Mocha Mousse, capturing not only its spectral data but also texture, weave, or sheen. By visualising the colour on different materials under multiple lighting conditions, designers and manufacturers can make informed decisions without the need for costly physical samples.

Advanced measurement and quality control

X-Rite’s Ci7000 Series and MetaVue VS3200 spectrophotometers capture precise spectral data from physical samples, ensuring accurate colour formulation and quality control for Mocha Mousse across various materials, from soft-touch weaves to durable canvases and coated plastics. These advanced tools enable brands to measure, maintain, and analyse production colours against the standards, ensuring colour consistency across patterns, textures, performance fabrics, accessories, and other challenging-to-measure samples.

For more information on X-Rite digital colour and appearance solutions, visit www.xrite.com.