Pantone cups: These coffee mugs need creative minds

There are cups. And there are pantone cups. Anyone who has ever been to a design agency has seen them: these clean porcelain cups with color beams and code on it, as if they had fallen directly from a color compartment. At first glance, they look a bit too neat – almost too correct. But that is exactly what makes your charm. No frills, only color, code, coffee. Complete.

What started as an insider accessory for graphic artists and architects has quietly gotten its way into kitchens, co-working spaces and Instagram feeds. The pantone cup is no longer just coffee cup-it is a piece of identity. Just as you choose a shirt in a certain color in the morning, you also use the cup that is just fitting the mood. Yellow today? Or prefer black? The color speaks. And sometimes she says more than the first zoom call of the day.

For everyone who thinks of a new e-scooter in the word “Pantone” rather than colors: Pantone is a kind of color deity for everyone who has to do with design. Since the 1960s, the American company has determined how exactly a color has to look – so precisely that even two prints on different continents can get the same blue tone. Color code on it, discussion over.

The Pantone fan-a thick block of color cards with code names like or – for designers is what the kitchen knife is for chefs. Absolutely irreplaceable.

At some point someone thought: Why should this color aesthetics actually end in the printer room? Why not bring the whole pantone thing into everyday life-to where real magic happens in the morning: to the coffee machine. No sooner said than done. A Danish design studio has teamed up with Pantone and had the color codes printed on porcelain. The idea: as clean and color -safe as a print file.

And what can you say – the whole thing struck like a double espresso on an empty stomach.

On the one hand: you just look good. No frills, no heart grip, no embarrassing sayings. Only color, white surface, code. Quite uncompromising. And that is exactly what dear designerds – and now everyone else who can do something with the word “Moodboard”.

On the other hand: the are high quality. Dishwasher -safe, robust, good in the hand. So no decorative object that you only get out of for fear of chips on public holidays. You can use them – and want it too.

The classic version is a mug with a capacity of around 375 ml. It’s enough for coffee, cappuccino or the tea that you drink even though you actually want coffee. However, there are also espresso cups, to-go versions with silicone lids and even matt finish cups for everyone who takes it very precisely with aesthetics.

And of course there are all sorts of colors: from neon pink to mustard yellow to a gray that is so stylish that it forgives 7:15 a.m. even on Monday morning. The palette continues to grow – especially when Pantone is again chose. Then it will be really exciting, because these colors appear immediately everywhere: in fashion, in advertising and – of course – on cups.

A pantone cup is not a cup like any other. He is statement, tool and mood indicator in one. Anyone who uses such a mug actively choose a color every morning – and maybe also for an attitude.

Whatever you fill up-it tastes a little clearer, a little more conscious from a Pantone cup. Or, honestly: you just look cooler while drinking. And sometimes that’s everything that matters.