If you have been anywhere on the internet in the past year, you will have noticed an uptick in the desire for whimsy. Check out our Adobe Font recommendations for the summer to spark some creativity and, hopefully, inspire some whimsy.

It is only right for a creative team to survey the current landscape of trends and make an educated guess of what will continue to be popular, emerge supreme, or evolve into the next big thing. Here are our predictions for 2026.

Last year, we predicted a handful of trends we thought would boom in 2024. Although millennial pink was shelved for Glinda Pink, we definitely saw a continuous use of abstract gradients, glitter foil, hand drawn illustrations, and AI tools. Our team is back with some year-end design predictions for 2025.