• Color Family Filter
• Color Name Keyword Filter
• Years Color Existed Filter
• Active Colors Filter
• Standard Colors Filter
• Special Colors Filter
• Color Type Filter (collapsible sections)

Standard colors are a large subsection (about half) of the complete list of Solid Type colors. These colors are accompanied by a digital render of a 1 x 1 plate, and they represent primary building colors – large selections of bricks, plates and other common elements.

Special colors are the remainder of the solid colors plus all other colors in the Color Guide. These are accompanied by actual photographs of the parts, and they represent elements primarily used for trim or accessories.

• Default Sort (Color Spectrum)
• BrickLink Color Name Sort
• LEGO Color Name Sort
• Number of Parts in Color Sort
• Number of Sets Containing Color Sort
• Number of Wanted List Items in a Color Sort (Wanted)
• Number of Lots for Sale in a Color Sort
• Year Released Sort
• Year Retired Sort

And we have also added several sectional sorting options:

• Color Name Sectional Sort
• LEGO Color Name Sectional Sort (compact view only)
• Number of Parts in Color Sectional Sort (Parts)
• Number of Sets Containing Color Sectional Sort (In Sets)
• Number of Wanted List Items in a Color Sectional Sort (Wanted)
• Number of Lots for Sale in a Color Sectional Sort

• List with Images
• List without Images
• Compact View

Compact view is the closest to the original Color Guide default view. There is no longer a Gallery view.

Responsive design

The new Color Guide page is built to be used on both mobile devices and desktop machines. The navigation will smoothly transition as the window changes size.

1. You want to see as many transparent colors on one screen as possible.


Step 1 – Open the Color Guide and click the Compact View button

Step 2 – Click the collapse arrow for the Solid Colors section.

Step 3 – Scroll to fill the screen with transparent colors.

2. You want to browse images of the most common Satin Colors.


Step 1 – Open the Color Guide and make sure you click the Image View button

Step 2 – Type “satin” or “opal” in the Color Name keyword search box

Step 3 – Click the arrows to the right of Parts twice – first to sort from “rarest to most common” and again to sort from “most common to rarest”

3. You want to see Active colors that have the fewest listings in the marketplace.


Step 1 – Check the Active Colors box at the bottom of the filter panel on the left

Step 2 – Select For Sale from the sort dropdown on the upper right of the page

Step 3 – Click the collapse arrow for each section as you work your way down the page

4. You are trying to identify a transparent vintage element in a shade of green you have never seen before.


Step 1 – Click the Green Color Family Filter

Step 2 – Collapse the Solid Color section

Step 3 – Select Year Retired from the sort dropdown on the upper right corner of the page

Step 4 – The two oldest Colors in the Transparent section are Trans-Light Green and Trans-Light Bright Green. Click on the Parts link for each of these colors and browse the search results to find the element.

5. You are trying to list a Dark Blue tile with a compass pattern printed on it.


Step 1 – Click the Blue Color Family filter on the left panel

Step 2 – Scroll down to Dark Blue and click on the Parts link. This will take you to a new page.

Step 3 – At the top of the new page, click the Category Summary link. This will take you to another new page.

Step 4 – Enter “compass” in the search bar at the top of the page and click go.

Step 5 – Choose the entry that most closely resembles your element.

Step 6 – Click Add to My Store Inventory and go from there.

6. You are trying to remember a color name that has the syllable “ish.”


Step 1 – Click the Clear Filters button at the bottom of the filter panel.

Step 2 – Type “ish” into the Color Name search box filter.

Step 3 – Browse the remaining colors. All color names (including LEGO color names) containing the character string “ish” should be visible.

7. You are involved in a trivia contest and want to know if “Very, Very Dark Gray” is a real color.


Step 1 – Click the Clear Filters button at the bottom of the filter panel.

Step 2 – Type “very” into the Color Name search box filter.

Step 3 – Browse the remaining colors.

8. You’d like to incorporate the rare color Warm Yellowish Orange into something you’re building, and you want to see what’s available on the BrickLink marketplace.


Step 1 – Click on the Orange Color Family filter

Step 2 – Scroll to find Warm Yellowish Orange

Step 3 – Click on the For Sale link. This will take you to another page.

Step 4 – Notice that most of the listings have system images. This is a good sign that the parts exist in those colors.

9. You’re trying to decide which color you want to use to finish a model with round tiles – Sand Green, Dark Green, or Olive Green.


Step 1 – Click on the Green Color Family filter.

Step 2 – Right-click on the Parts link for Sand Green to open the link in a new tab.

Step 3 – Click on Category Summary and then on the Tile, Round category.

Step 4 – Do the same for Dark Green and Olive Green. Observe that BrickLink Dark Green is LEGO Earth Green.

Step 5 – Browse the results on the three new tabs to find the color with the most suitable selection of round tiles.

10. You are looking for multicolored Scala clothes.


Step 1 – Click on any link under the Parts heading and note the BrickLink color number of the color you chose. This will take you to another page.

Step 2 – Change the Color Number in the URL to 0 [zero] and press Enter. This will switch the color to Not Applicable.

Step 3 – Click on Category Summary and then click on Scala, Figure Accessory.

Step 4 – This will show a list of all items in that category inventoried under the color Not Applicable. These are all multicolored Scala clothes.

11. You’d like to see a list of the LEGO colors released in the last two years.


Step 1 – Select Year Released from the menu on the upper right

Step 2 – Click the sort direction button next to the dropdown

Step 3 – Observe that the newest color is Ochre Yellow (2025). Reddish Orange, Umber and Sienna were added in 2024.

The current BrickLink Color Guide uses only data from the BrickLink inventory system to populate its lists. This data is further restricted to parts that are in sets. Other inventory data (e.g. gear items in sets or parts in books) is not included.

There are currently four colors in the BrickLink inventory system that are orphaned by this limitation: Neon Orange, Neon Green, Dark Olive Green, and Pearl Sand Purple. As a result, these colors are normally excluded from Color Guide data. However, we have created a temporary workaround to represent these in the Color Guide.

Single year for sets

BrickLink assumes that every set was only distributed during a single portfolio year. Since the color timeline is based on the portfolio year of sets, this assumption prevents complete timeline data from sets that were sold for multiple years from being included.

Approximate colors

Many parts are added to inventories in approximate colors. For example, many of the early HO 1:87 scale vehicles are added to the BrickLink inventory system in colors that were only officially released years later.

For example, the current Color Guide timeline for Medium Blue is 1949-2025. But the true release year of that color is 1997. There are several instances of Medium Blue in the database that pull the release year back from 1997 to 1949:

1949-1950: Seven sets from LEGO antiquity with parts that approximately resemble Medium Blue. The modern LEGO color system was not developed yet.

1988-1995: Four sets with blue car wash brushes. These brushes were made with a special material which may or may not match the true Medium Blue color.

There are two upgrades we are planning to implement as soon as the Catalog is sufficiently built out in the new environment. Curated year data is planned for when we build the new Color Guide admin page at the beginning of 2026, and adding Gear data will need to wait until we launch the new inventory system, also coming in 2026.

In addition, we are considering other upgrades as part of the iterative process – additional color sources (images, PCCs, item names of patterned parts), adding color to minifigures, showing the Not Applicable color in the Color Guide, creating other views (Timeline view, Gallery view), and allowing users to save their Color Guide settings.