Is this the official LEGO colour palette?

No. The LEGO Group has not published a full palette since 2016. This is built from Rebrickable's public catalogue of what has actually appeared in sets, which is a record of what was made rather than a statement of what is offered.

Why are there only 51 colours when other charts list more?

Because most charts answer a different question. They list colours that exist, including transparent ones and ones retired years ago. This lists colours that are both still in production and attested on a 1×1 plate or tile in a set released since 2018, which is the set you can realistically buy in quantity.

What does the set count mean?

How many sets released since 2018 contain that piece in that colour. It is a sourcing proxy rather than a stock level: nobody publishes how many pieces exist, but a colour that has appeared in six sets is going to be slow and expensive to buy several hundred of, and one that has appeared in a thousand will not be.

Why does the same colour have three different ID numbers?

Because Rebrickable, BrickLink and LEGO each number colours themselves and none of the three agrees with the others. Black is 0, 11 and 26 respectively. The table lists all three, plus LEGO's own colour name, which is frequently nothing like the name everyone else uses: Tan is officially Brick Yellow.

Can I use this data in my own project?

Yes. It is derived from Rebrickable's dumps, which are CC BY 4.0, so it carries the same terms: use it for anything, including commercially, as long as you credit Rebrickable. A link back here is welcome but not required.

LEGO 1x1 plate colors: which are actually made

ReferenceWhich of the 51 current LEGO® colours are really produced as a 1×1 plate or tile, and how many recent sets contain each one. Free to download as CSV or JSON.

What this is

A list of every LEGO colour you can actually build a 1×1 mosaic or pixel design from, with a number next to each saying how hard it will be to get.

That is a narrower question than the colour charts already out there, and deliberately so. Those answer “what colours exist”, which is a question about LEGO’s history. This answers “what can I buy”, which is the question you have when there is a design on your screen and an order to place.

A colour existing is not a colour you can use

The two get conflated constantly, and it is the single most expensive mistake in planning a build. A colour can be in current production and still never have been made as the piece you need.

Rebrickable lists 60 opaque colours as currently produced. Only 51 of them have ever appeared on a 1×1 plate or tile in a set released since 2018, and it narrows again from there depending on which of the three pieces you build in:

Piece	Design ID	Colours made	Common enough to buy in bulk
Plate 1×1	`3024`	47 of 51	41
Tile 1×1	`3070b`	48 of 51	41
Tile 1×1 Round	`98138`	45 of 51	36

“Common enough to buy in bulk” means the colour appears in at least 25 sets released since 2018, which is roughly where sourcing a few hundred pieces stops being a purchase and starts being a search.

Four of those colours are never produced as a 1×1 plate at all: Metallic Gold, Glow in Dark White, Metallic Silver and Warm Pink. They exist only as tiles. A generator that matches against “all current colours” will happily put a plate in your parts list that has never been manufactured, and you find out when the order cannot be filled.

Three catalogues, three numbers, three names

Before the table, the thing that makes cross-referencing colours painful: there is no single colour ID, and the three in common use agree with each other nowhere. Black is 0 to Rebrickable, 11 to BrickLink and 26 to LEGO.

The names diverge too, and more confusingly, because they look like they should match. What most people call Tan, LEGO calls Brick Yellow. Light Bluish Gray is LEGO’s Medium Stone Grey. The two colours introduced for 2026 are Warm Pink and Blue Violet, which LEGO numbers 430 and 431 while Rebrickable numbers them 1146 and 1147.

So the table carries all three IDs and both names. Use the BrickLink column if you are buying, the LEGO column if you are reading anything written by the parts-focused end of the hobby, and the Rebrickable column if you are working with their data.

One warning if you are matching these up yourself: LEGO has more than one colour whose name collides with a different colour’s name in another catalogue. LDraw lists a Blue_Violet, a colour produced in 2004 and 2005, that is not the Blue Violet of 2026, and matching on name alone silently gives you the wrong one. Rebrickable has since renamed that older colour Royal Blue, so the same physical colour is Blue_Violet to LDraw, Blue-Violet to BrickLink and Royal Blue to Rebrickable.

The full list

All 51 colours, with the number of sets released since 2018 that contain each as each piece. Higher is easier to buy.

	LEGO's name	Hex	Rebrickable ID	BrickLink ID	LEGO ID	Plate 1×1	Tile 1×1	Tile 1×1 Round
White	White	`#FFFFFF`	15	1	1	1,553	1,016	559
Black	Black	`#05131D`	0	11	26	1,519	1,072	756
Light Bluish Gray	Medium Stone Grey	`#A0A5A9`	71	86	194	1,217	760	905
Dark Bluish Gray	Dark Stone Grey	`#6C6E68`	72	85	199	884	594	391
Red	Bright Red	`#C91A09`	4	5	21	810	614	466
Tan	Brick Yellow	`#E4CD9E`	19	2	5	793	461	186
Reddish Brown	Reddish Brown	`#582A12`	70	88	192	764	489	229
Yellow	Bright Yellow	`#F2CD37`	14	3	24	533	341	325
Dark Tan	Sand Yellow	`#958A73`	28	69	138	497	295	89
Medium Nougat	Medium Nougat	`#AA7D55`	84	150	312	362	224	159
Blue	Bright Blue	`#0055BF`	1	7	23	348	209	167
Green	Dark Green	`#237841`	2	6	28	326	152	38
Orange	Bright Orange	`#FE8A18`	25	4	106	326	196	150
Dark Blue	Earth Blue	`#0A3463`	272	63	140	312	231	77
Dark Red	Dark Red	`#720E0F`	320	59	154	306	202	73
Bright Light Orange	Flame Yellowish Orange	`#F8BB3D`	191	110	191	287	185	97
Dark Turquoise	Bright Bluish Green	`#008F9B`	3	39	107	274	141	73
Dark Orange	Dark Orange	`#A95500`	484	68	38	232	144	63
Pearl Goldmetallic	Warm Gold	`#AA7F2E`	297	115	297	219	not made	9
Lime	Br. Yellowish Green	`#BBE90B`	27	34	119	216	164	166
Dark Green	Earth Green	`#184632`	288	80	141	216	177	23
Dark Azure	Dark Azur	`#078BC9`	321	153	321	195	120	19
Medium Azure	Medium Azure	`#36AEBF`	322	156	322	179	166	113
Dark Brown	Dark Brown	`#352100`	308	120	308	177	27	81
Sand Green	Sand Green	`#A0BCAC`	378	48	151	167	106	not made
Bright Pink	Light Purple	`#E4ADC8`	29	104	222	156	120	223
Bright Light Yellow	Cool Yellow	`#FFF03A`	226	103	226	144	117	70
Dark Purple	Medium Lilac	`#3F3691`	85	89	268	130	78	19
Magenta	Bright Reddish Violet	`#923978`	26	71	124	109	73	58
Olive Green	Olive Green	`#9B9A5A`	326	155	330	108	2	68
Medium Lavender	Medium Lavender	`#AC78BA`	30	157	324	107	56	13
Bright Light Blue	Light Royal Blue	`#9FC3E9`	212	105	212	104	52	4
Dark Pink	Bright Purple	`#C870A0`	5	47	221	97	75	65
Coral	Coral	`#FF698F`	1050	220	353	83	66	80
Bright Green	Bright Green	`#4B9F4A`	10	36	37	80	105	68
Light Aqua	Aqua	`#ADC3C0`	323	152	323	78	87	78
Metallic Goldmetallic	Gold Ink	`#DBAC34`	82	65	335	not made	65	1
Medium Blue	Medium Blue	`#5A93DB`	73	42	102	63	29	26
Sand Blue	Sand Blue	`#6074A1`	379	55	135	52	104	28
Light Nougat	Light Nougat	`#F6D7B3`	78	90	283	51	27	46
Glow in Dark White	White Glow	`#D9D9D9`	1000	159	329	not made	not made	39
Metallic Silvermetallic	Silver Ink	`#A5A9B4`	80	67	336	not made	35	not made
Lavender	Lavender	`#E1D5ED`	31	154	325	29	51	77
Nougat	Nougat	`#D09168`	92	28	18	25	18	13
Vibrant Yellow	Vibrant Yellow	`#EBD800`	1062	236	368	20	18	26
Reddish Orange	Red. Orange	`#CA4C0B`	1136	167	402	12	20	1
Yellowish Green	Spring Yellow Green	`#DFEEA5`	158	158	326	5	38	72
Pearl Titaniummetallic	Titanium Metallic	`#3E3C39`	1103	77	316	2	not made	not made
Warm Pink	Warm Pink	`#F6B7BF`	1146	175	430	not made	2	not made
Blue Violet	Blue Violet	`#A3A9FF`	1147	174	431	2	3	not made
Warm Tan	Warm Tan	`#CCA373`	1089	241	371	1	1	not made

Availability is wildly uneven

The counts above are not a formality. White appears in 1,553 sets released since 2018 and Black in 1,519, so those are effectively unlimited. The median colour appears in 156. At the other end sit four colours found in fewer than five sets each: Warm Tan, Blue Violet, Warm Pink and Pearl Titanium.

Of the 51, seven sit below 25 sets, which is roughly where sourcing a few hundred pieces stops being a purchase and starts being a search through individual sellers at whatever price they feel like. Those are the rows worth checking before you commit to a design that leans on one of them.

The same colour is not equally available as every piece, either. White is in 1,553 sets as a Plate 1×1, 559 sets as a Tile 1×1 Round and 1,016 sets as a Tile 1×1. If you are building in round tiles, the plate’s number is measuring a part you are not buying.

The gap in the middle of the palette

Something that does not show up in any colour chart, because a chart lists colours rather than describing the shape of the set.

Sort the buildable colours by perceived lightness in OKLab and there are only three near-neutral greys in the whole usable palette: White at a lightness of 1.00, Light Bluish Gray at 0.72, and Dark Bluish Gray at 0.54. Nothing sits between White and Light Bluish Gray. Every other colour in that lightness band carries a visible hue.

The practical consequence is that light warm greys have nothing to match to. A pale skin tone, grey hair, an overcast sky or a soft studio background all land in that gap, and the nearest available colour is chosen on hue as much as lightness. A light warm grey of rgb(196, 183, 176) matches to Light Aqua, at a perceptual distance of 0.041, ahead of Sand Green at 0.051. Light Bluish Gray, which is what your eye expects, is fourth at 0.074.

This is a property of the palette rather than a flaw in any particular matcher, and it is why photographs of people come out looking tinted in every brick mosaic tool, including ours. Flat-colour artwork and logos are much less exposed to it.

How this was filtered

Starting from Rebrickable’s catalogue, a colour is included when all of the following hold:

Still in production. Rebrickable’s catalogue records the colour as current rather than retired, as of the generation date below.
Opaque. Transparent colours are excluded: they are a different material and behave differently in a design that is meant to be looked at flat.
Attested on a 1×1 piece. The colour has appeared on a Plate 1x1, Tile 1x1 or Tile 1x1 Round in a real set, rather than merely existing.
In a set released since 2018. Older attestations are history rather than availability.

Metallic and pearlescent colours are flagged rather than removed. They pass the filter, but a single RGB value does not describe them, since their appearance shifts with viewing angle, so any colour matching that includes them will pick them for ordinary warm tones.

Generated on 2026-08-08 from Rebrickable data dumps (CC BY 4.0).

Download the data

Both files carry the same rows as the table above.

JSON, with the filter criteria and the licence stated in the file itself
CSV, one row per colour, one column pair per piece, and all three catalogues’ IDs

Licensed CC BY 4.0 like the source it derives from. Credit Rebrickable, whose public data dumps make this possible.

An absent set count means the colour is not produced as that piece. It is left blank rather than set to zero, because zero would read as “made, but in no recent sets”, which is a different and untrue claim.

Limitations

Set counts are not stock levels. Nobody publishes how many pieces exist in circulation. Appearing in many sets is a good proxy and not a guarantee, and a single large set can put a lot of one colour into the world on its own.

Rebrickable’s catalogue is community-maintained. It is the best public record there is, and it is not an inventory from the manufacturer. A colour that appeared in one set in a region with thin coverage may be undercounted.

“Still in production” moves. Colours are retired and introduced every year. This snapshot is only as current as its generation date above, and the number to distrust first on an old copy is the low ones, since a colour on its way out shows up as scarce before it shows up as retired.

Which colours LEGO 1×1 plates come in