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/[email protected] with a few corrections/additions based on personal research.
I hope this helps:
Some notes:
Based mostly on https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] 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