Each year, Pantone, makers of the well-known color-matching system used by designers globally, declare a color of the year. For 2025, the company selected mocha mousse, an “evocative soft brown that transports our senses into the pleasure and deliciousness it inspires.”

Swipe through to find out how you can incorporate this warm, rich brown into your life.

Wallpaper

Wallpaper and fabric designer Spoonflower has partnered with Pantone to develop several products featuring mocha mousse. You’ll find home decor accessories as well as wallpaper and fabric in the collection.

Photography: Spoonflower

Smartphone

Pantone and Motorola partnered to design several phone models in 2025’s color of the year. Reviewers are gushing over the sophisticated—albeit unusual—phone color.

Photography: Motorola

Get a Brown Cat

There are several breeds of brown cats, any one of which would look magnificent lounging on your overstuffed mocha mousse couch. Look for Havana Brown, Oriental Shorthair and York Chocolate — they’re all beautifully brown and make great pets, too.

Photography: Pinterest/JasmineNorrisXO

Paint Your Summer Home

Several paint manufacturers make paint in hues of mocha. Choose one that suits your fancy and do a room makeover, or paint your whole house—inside or outside.

Photography: Pantone

Buy Some Furniture

Pantone worked with furniture maker Joybird to develop several gorgeous pieces of furniture featuring the warm hue. You’ll find couches, chairs and ottomans all dressed in mocha. Swap out a piece or two, or do a whole room!

Photography: Joybird

Wrap Yourself in Mocha

Find a beautiful scarf in whatever shade of mocha you like, and add it to your winter wardrobe. It will add warmth to your outfits, while also keeping your neck protected from winter’s wrath.

Make a Dessert

If you’re going all in on the mocha mousse thing, you have to make a mocha mousse for dessert, right? Search online and you’ll find plenty of recipes for this decadent treat, which is typically made with cream, eggs, coffee, and, of course, chocolate.

Photography: Pantone