The world of design and branding is buzzing: Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year has just been revealed — PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer — a soft, airy white.
At SixB Labels, we believe every color trend brings opportunity, especially in label design. As a full-service label manufacturer serving many industries (from wine and food to electronics, cosmetics, and packaging), we’re excited to explore how Cloud Dancer could influence label design in 2026 and beyond.
In the highly competitive world of meat packaging, whether animal-based or plant-based, labels play a critical role in both compliance and consumer appeal. They must not only meet stringent food labeling regulations but also perform reliably in cold, damp, or frozen environments while still representing your brand beautifully.
At SixB Labels, we’ve been perfecting the art and science of food packaging labels since 1979. From custom freezer labels to high-performance barcodes, our team understands the specific demands of meat labeling and delivers solutions that are both functional and visually appealing.
Since 1979, we at SixB Labels have been passionate about creating innovative labeling solutions. From labels and barcodes to labeling products, we’ve seen how trends shape the industry. In 2025, the world of label printing is set to be more exciting than ever. Here are the top trends that every business should know to stay ahead of the competition.
The PANTONE Color Institute has delivered another shiny new gift to the public, in the form of their announcement of the 2024 PANTONE Color of the Year: PANTONE 13-1023, Peach Fuzz. PANTONE made the official announcement of their newest choice on December 7, 2023. Advertisers and marketers, graphic designers, as well as manufacturers and sellers of products from cosmetics to home goods, from clothing to specialty tea blends, would do well to take note.
Making a vivid splash across the worlds of beauty, fashion, home interiors, graphic design, advertising and marketing, comes the announcement of the 2023 PANTONE Color of the Year: PANTONE 18-1750 Viva Magenta. Made official on December 1, 2022, this startlingly colorful message to the world, embodied in the luxurious blend of red and blue, hot and cool, retro and up-to-the minute vibes that is 2023 PANTONE Viva Magenta, positively blossoms with its many possible applications. From paint, to signage, to point-of-sale displays, to our favorite medium for marketing messages, labels, Viva Magenta is a vibrant color that you would do well to explore, to discover what it might hold in store for your product or industry.
In this blog post, we will deal with PANTONE's newest color of the year for 2023. For a discussion of the newest PANTONE Color of the Year, check out our latest blog post on the topic: Warm Up Your Labeling With PANTONE's 2024 Color of the Year.
Due to their high visual impact, we love to incorporate these new PANTONE colors into our marketing, and as we have in the past, we have taken the liberty to design some logos for the occasion showcasing this spicy shade, featured here.
Happy Gregorian Calendar New Year, Lunar New Year and a Very Peri PANTONE Color of the Year 2022!
Personally I am a proud PANTONE Color Products enthusiast, sipping my coffee from a PANTONE 520 Aubergine-hued mug as I write this post. As we were developing our end-of-2021 marketing, I made sure we weaved in the year’s two colors — PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray and PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating. So it should not be much of a surprise that I was waiting in anticipation for them to announce their 2022 Color of The Year: PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri.
We are so excited to start using the color in our marketing that the SixB team designed some festive logos for the occasion, featured here, incorporating a solid Very Peri in reverse as well as one with an image of fibers and orbs in reverse, as PANTONE has been highlighting in their materials about the color.
As we now enter the final quarter of 2020, SixB Labels looks back with satisfaction over the last four years of accolades received from the Printing & Imaging Association of MidAmerica, a regional division of the larger organization, Printing Industries of America (PIA), covering Texas, Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri. The SixB Labels Family is pleased to be members in good standing with PIA. And we are just as happy to be the recipient of a number of custom label printing awards from this body because there is no better compliment than respect from a jury of one's peers— the reward for our proud participation in the PIA.
As part of SixB Labels' focus on Simplifying Labeling for our clients, we have developed a white paper on the proposed Food and Drug Administration nutrition label revisions that were supposed to go into effect this year. While the FDA has placed the revisions deadline on hold, we still believe the white paper is a valuable resource for food manufacturers to evaluate labeling.
( NOTE: This is our 2018 Blog, click here for our latest FDA blog )
Most Americans surveyed have said that they use the nutrition facts label on food products to make better shopping choices. As a result, the FDA has spent more than two years working on updated guidelines for food labels, meant to incorporate the latest information from nutrition science, in accordance with the new 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the newest Institute of Medicine recommendations. The format changes should also make it easier for consumers to access this information, to help them make the right food choices for themselves and their families.
Client Chats Series — We had the pleasure of hearing Bobby Goodman tell the story of his family-owned mail order gift company, Goodies from Goodman, and how they came full circle to their current business model.
Client Chats Series — Recently, we took the opportunity to speak with Sophia Stevens about her company's Sweet Pea Spices labels.