{"id":2171337,"date":"2025-11-21T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2171337"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:44:12","slug":"pantone-and-bon-iver-announce-a-new-shade-for-2026-color-of-the-year-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pantone-and-bon-iver-announce-a-new-shade-for-2026-color-of-the-year-contender\/","title":{"rendered":"Pantone and Bon Iver announce a new shade for 2026 Color of the Year contender"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Indie folk legend Bon Iver got together with Pantone to create a whole new shade ahead of the 2026 Color of the Year announcement. The color, named fABLE Salmon by the official color decider, comes from the cover art of the band’s latest album: SABLE, fABLE.<\/p>\n

Artists<\/a> are intrigued, and Bon Iver fans are impressed at the band’s ability to influence culture.<\/p>\n

fABLE Salmon takes the stage<\/h2>\n

Pantone announced the partnership<\/a> and the new color Friday as the “story of a musical makeover.”<\/p>\n

“The two colors on the cover of Bon Iver\u2019s latest album SABLE, fABLE\u2014stark black and Pantone 1625 C\u2014tell a simple story that, like all the best ones, was complex in its conception,” writes Andy Battaglia for the color-naming company.<\/p>\n

“The second color has come to be known in the Bon Iver universe as ‘salmon.’ Invocation of the fish is intentional, but so are associations with other things like sunsets and the underside of skin.”<\/p>\n

Salmon has been Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon’s favorite color since he was a kid. Apparently, this was how he imagined the sunset sky in Los Angeles as he dreamed of stardom while growing up in the Midwest. The life cycle of the fish further inspired his affection for the tone.<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s the life of a salmon: to spawn upriver just to die, for love,” said Vernon. “The sad-b*stard in me loved that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new shade of salmon will presumably be a contender for the 2026 Color of the Year. Pantone will announce the winner on Dec. 14 and is encouraging people<\/a> to predict which color family the winner will come from. So far, green is the clear frontrunner at 31 percent, with the pink family trailing at seven percent.<\/p>\n

This could change after the Bon Iver partnership reveal, however.<\/p>\n

“Love that he made a whole color canon”<\/h2>\n

The announcement drew the attention of artists and other color enjoyers on X. Opinions on fABLE Salmon are mixed, but seem to lean positive, although the enthusiasm of Bon Iver<\/a> fans may be biasing the results.<\/p>\n

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