Almost 4 years ago I had an idea and threw down some code that would allow people to share colors and rate them… Just a few days ago our 1,000,00th color was named and shared on the site. It was only 10 days ago, but since that milestone color was upload… another 32,000 have been shared. That’s some serious color love!

The names of colors can do funny things, just check the interesting coincidences thread for more examples… but _stefan, unknowing that the color he named Ego would in fact be our 1 million milestone color. Thank you all for sharing so much color love with us. (And now that the Color API is up and running, some creative folks are going to find some awesome ways to play with that color / name data.)

COLOURlovers Major Color Milestones

Every color on the site is special, but here are some extra special milestone colors.

#1 Lickable Lips

#100 Ash Brown

#1,000 Alkaptonuria

#10,000 COLOUR #10000

#50,000 Pear Timer

#100,000 Coagulent

#250,000 My Marine

#500,000 got

#750,000 B1A887

#1,000,000 Ego

Number of Colors Added Per Month

Color Archive: The Top Colors Since We Started

You can browse the color archives all the way back to Dec. of 04 when we started COLOURlovers to see what the top colors were each month. Here are the top 2 colors from each of the last 12 months.

Top Colors from April 2008

Top Colors from March 2008

Top Colors from February 2008

Top Colors from January 2008

Top Colors from December 2007

Top Colors from November 2007

Top Colors from October 2007

Top Colors from September 2007

Top Colors from August 2007

Top Colors from July 2007

Top Colors from June 2007

Top Colors from May 2007

Top Colors from April 2007

 
 

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

Thank you all so much for the time you’ve invested in sharing the color love with all of us. You are the ones that make this such an amazing community to be a part of. I’m honored to be a part of it. Here is to another 15 million colors!