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Who did better? Color sequencing with ChatGPT vs DeepSeek
Using Generative AI to create a sequential color scheme with the Pantone 2025 COY.
In this writing I share my success in using either ChatGPT or DeepSeek to create a sequential color scheme with Mocha Mousse, the Pantone 2025 Color of the Year. In 2024, ChatGPT was unable to handle a similar request for Peach Fuzz, the Pantone 2024 Color of the Year. What a difference a year makes.
In 2025, DeepSeek is challenged to accurately determine the Pantone 2025 COY but can suggest a sequential color scheme for Mocha Mousse. Let’s get started on this journey by first reviewing the Pantone COY and then begin exploring how a text based generative AI tool can help in building a data color scheme based on this hue.
Pantone’s Color of the Year Concept:
The Pantone company produces the Pantone Matching System (PMS) and the Pantone Fashion, Home + Interiors (FHI) System, proprietary color spaces. PMS is used primarily in graphics for printing, packaging, and digital media. FHI is used in a wide range of other industries including fashion, cosmetics, fabric, plastics, and paints. When Pantone PMS inks are applied to a physical color reproduction process, it is frequently possible to accurately match the colors from your digital data visualization to hard copy output. I highlighted this journey from digital to hard copy in a previousNightingale writing.
Since 2000, the Pantone Color Institute began defining a “Color of the Year” from its inventory of PMS and FHI colors. The color for a given year is selected by a secret panel after considering color trend analyses that span the entertainment industry, all areas of design, fine art shows and collections, social media, new technologies, emerging materials, and textures as well as lifestyles and socio-economic conditions. On December 5, 2024, Mocha Mousse (PANTONE 17–1230) was announced as the Pantone 2025 Color of the Year.
Pantone’s Color of the Year has influence on the development of products and consumer decisions in areas…
