The Unofficial LEGO Color Guide
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- Set number
- ISBN9780473422523-1
- Availability
- In production
- Released
- 2017
- Theme
- Other
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The Unofficial LEGO Color Guide was compiled by Nathan Sawaya and other members of the AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) community to address the long-standing challenge of color consistency and identification within the LEGO hobby. Published in the late 2010s, this reference tool was developed as a comprehensive, printed resource for builders to distinguish between similar shades—such as the transition from Old Gray to Bluish Gray—which often cause frustration during complex MOC (My Own Creation) builds.
The guide functions as an essential utility for serious collectors and artists, featuring high-quality printed swatches that allow users to match physical bricks against a standardized color palette. It emerged from a grassroots desire to catalog the evolving plastic palette of The LEGO Group, filling a void left by the company's own internal production guides, which are rarely made available to the public. The work is widely regarded as a definitive, albeit unofficial, tool for cataloging the nuances of ABS plastic pigmentation across decades of manufacturing.
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