LEGO releases its internal color palette [News]
The Design Lab at LEGO has finally agreed to share the company’s internal color scheme with the public. In the chart below, you can see the official LEGO color names with their corresponding color numbers.
Of course, there are differences between the names that LEGO gives to their colors and what we fans call them. Nevertheless, this is still very useful information, especially to improve communication with The LEGO Group regarding the LUGBULK Program.
You can download a high-res version (25 KB Adobe Reader PDF) as well.
January 28th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Official CMYK or RGB values would be nice as well…
January 28th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Man I must need to calibrate my monitor. Yellow looks like mustard compared to the yellow lego piece I hold up next to the monitor
January 28th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
It would be nice if they updated their online Pick-a-Brick to match these color names, too. I’m getting tired of searching for ‘dark green’, and only seeing the pieces that are available in ‘bright green’.
January 28th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
^I thought the exact same thing. Also, can’t help but wonder if #312 (Medium Nougat) is the color in the new Prince of Persia sets.
January 28th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Guys, your monitors produce their own light, while Lego bricks reflect light. I wouldn’t expect any of them to look the same on screen as they do in real life. Printing the color table may give better results.
January 28th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Which one is bley?
January 28th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
I meant to say the “exact same thing” about the RGB value comment, not the mustard.
January 28th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
is 312 not what we all know and love as dark tan?
January 28th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
@Puddleglum: Ah, the perils of the ^ character when there may be as-yet-unmoderated comments. :-P
January 28th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
This page is useful for matching Lego’s names with the more common names: http://www.peeron.com/inv/colors
January 29th, 2010 at 9:47 am
This will be useful for my CGI mini-figure. Thanks for posting this, Nannan.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:08 am
Do you think that when the LEGO product people are sitting down to figure out colors that they have a Pantone book in hand? There’s gotta be a way of them picking new colors.
Or maybe they set up a color grid in a program online, and then they just print out the colors. Then they look at that printout and tell their manufacturers to match the printout?
I’d like to think they use something more consistent like a Pantone book.