Seth Meyers - Pantone Reveals "Cloud Dancer" as Color of the Year - Monologue 12/8/2025

[Rhiannon12866]

Seth addresses Trump and Melania walking the red carpet together at the 48th Kennedy Center Honors and more in his monologue for Monday, December 8, before taking a closer look at Trump getting a fake peace prize from FIFA.

[GiqueCee]

1. I've been...

... a PMS (Pantone Matching System) user almost since its introduction in the early 60s. It was originally limited to specialty printing inks for situations where a designer wanted a 5th, unscreened spot color in addition to the standard CMYK mixtures. And in the early days before computers got into the design game, they produced a large sheet of paper and adhesive-backed films with many PMS colors represented for the creation of comps. To the best of my knowledge, they've never had a white ink in their swatch books, since 99% of the time the inks were applied to white paper.
PMS introduces new colors every year, and their hefty swatch books – there are three for coated stock and three for uncoated, plus a range of special colors and swatches for CMYK equivalents – provide designers a nearly unlimited choice of subtle variations of every color the human eye can perceive. Pretty cool stuff, and, in my experience, they've always been exceptionally pleasant and helpful to deal with.
Granted, the palest blues and grays come pretty close to "Cloud Dancer", But it's neat to see a shade of white in their vast selection.Go for it, Pantone!

[Uncle Joe]

2. The design

of the FIFA "Peace Prize" seems to represent an attack on the Southern Hemisphere by denizens from Hell in one form or another; unthinking support for mass extraction, climate change along with the destruction of the Amazon, military aggression from the from the most powerful nation on Earth denying due process to nations and people alike, imposed instability via coups, financial support for torture prisons, mass migration to a mirage of freedom and such.



Of course Hell won't just be satisfied with consuming the Southern Hemisphere, you reap what you sow.

Thanks for the thread Rhiannon