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Current LEGO Colour Palette 2026 in LDraw - Chris Böhnke - 2026-05-29
The amount of colours available for Lego pieces can be overwhelming at times, so I thought I'll post this image to give people a better overview on what is currently on the official Lego palette with the according LDraw IDs:
Based mostly on https://www.flickr.com/photos/126975831@N07/54234986030/in/album-72177720295848811 with a few corrections/additions based on personal research.
I hope this helps:
- Parts authors pick the correct colours for prints/stickers/dual-moulded parts
- Model builders avoiding discontinued (hard to find) colours more easily
Some notes:
- This is mostly speculative, not official. However most of it should be correct
- "Pearlescent Metallic" refers to un-painted plastic with additives giving them a pearly-metallic look (do not use for prints!)
- "Metallic Ink/Lacq" refers to a shiny paint coating on parts (but still more matte than chrome/vacuum-metallizing) or the ink used on prints/stickers. Both are considered the same by both Lego and LDraw
- Some chrome elements (like the LotR One Ring) might still be active, but are usually no longer listed as active. Chrome is easily identified anyways, so I excluded those for now
- "Glitter" is very transparent with big glittery flakes molded into the plastic; "Opalescent" is similar to Glitter, but the flakes are much smaller and have a much higher density, causing the base part to be more of a milky translucent rather than fully transparent. Rendering of these two effects varies heavily depending on program
- I'm not that sure on status for the glitter/opal colours, but they seem to have been active within the last 3 years and felt it better to be inclusive here
- Medium Blue (73) currently seems a bit "endangered" - only used in the Bluey theme in recent years
RE: Current LEGO Colour Palette 2026 in LDraw - Rene Rechthaler - 2026-05-29
would it help for the colors if the columns would be sorted by "brightness"?
like keeping the "base" colors as center line and then arrange the lighter/darker variants above/below...
RE: Current LEGO Colour Palette 2026 in LDraw - Chris Böhnke - 2026-05-29
Open for suggestions regarding the order. It's mainly based on the official one linked (which is a bit random admittedly).
The browns/nougats look especially messy now.
However I also wanted to avoid creating too many rows with only 1 or 2 entries. Not all colour hues would have a corresponding entry for each lightness value (the 2000-2002 palette sort of had).