Lego colours

The lego bricks I played with in the 70’s only came in a handful of colours. Transparent yellow bricks were only introduced in 1978, for example.

Then, in the 90’s there was an explosion of new colours, although many were short-lived.

This visualization shows the years when each lego brick colour was manufactured:

The interactive version shows the names of each colour brick, and information about dates.

Visualization type: dot plot, isotype chart, pictogram

Data source: Kaggle, CSV, 12 MB

Technical notes: generated using d3; code

See also: Lego colors (by quantity)