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@filamentcolors.xyz
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Just in love with 3D printing, filament, and color! Curator of the world's largest physical archive of 3D printing filament.

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Site update! The collections functionality is one of the oldest original parts of the site. I've been working on rebuilding it into the feature I always knew it could be and now it's ✨done✨. Give it a try! Long press or long click on any swatch to enter collections mode! #3dprinting
September 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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New site update! I've been working on this for a while, so it's good to finally get it out there. Lots of minor bugfixes here, but mostly it's that we have a LANDING PAGE and a newly redesigned swatch card! As always, let me know if you run into issues. Join us on discord? discord.gg/ceDJWqwcwT
A screenshot showing the new swatch card design. The left side says "What color is it?" pointing at a large block of solid color. The right side says "what does it look like in sunlight?" and points to a photo of the swatch.
August 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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@creatrixbritt.bsky.social #squirrelsighting time! Took this on Saturday!
A side picture of a gray squirrel eating.
July 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Lucky for me, I'm good at this. But also... -sigh-
A picture of a bag with many strands of broken filament.
July 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The joys of running TPU at 60mm/s...
July 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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It completely boggles my mind that I've reached the scale where it's more economical to run swatches in batches of 80... but here we are! Another batch ready for labels!
Photo of lots of different colors of 3d printed plastic swatches
June 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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New site update! You've been asking for a way to get more results from colormatching, and now you can :) Read more about it here! #3dprinting #filamentcolors

forum.filamentcolors.xyz/d/27-440-rel...
A screenshot of the settings page from FilamentColors.xyz. It reads, "Colormatch: Sometimes you just need to see more colors! This changes the number of results returned by the colormatch page. Be aware that the higher you set this number, the longer it will take to return results." It also shows a range selector labeled "number of color match results to display" with the number 6 highlighted.
May 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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This one you can actually do already, but it's not intuitive because I consider this to be a power user feature. Go to settings, then click "Deselect All" under Toggle Manufacturers. Select only the manufacturers you wish to see, then go through colormatch as normal!
A screenshot showing the Advanced Settings and the Toggle Specific Manufacturers setting, highlighting the "Deselect All" button.
May 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Here's something you might not know! If you take ABS off a build plate before it's fully done cooling, you'll often get white stress marks in the plastic. (This also happens with other plastics, but is most obvious with ABS.) Carefully hit it with an open flame and watch those marks disappear!
A plastic swatch with some white lines at one end of it. The same plastic swatch, now free of white lines.
May 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Thanks to multi-material printing and Fusion, I have a solution!

Most two-cube calendars only have three bars for the months (12 sides total) but I needed to display 14 events. That means I need four bars, so the cubes sit on two and the other two are hidden in the base! 3/4
A 3D printed two-cube calendar, displaying the number 18. Underneath the cubes, a bar showing "ISLAS CANARIAS" is displayed above the WRC logo. A picture of the base with the cubes removed, showing that each bar has different events on each side (Portugal, Estonia, Finland, and Saudi Arabia are visible) and that two bars are hidden behind the WRC logo.
May 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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I LOVE how little waste there is with the MMU3. Totally makes up for how much of a pain it is to load!
A picture of a 3d printer bed with four large gray bars with large black text on them with different countries labeled. There is a relatively small block of mixed black and gray beside them.
May 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Four different packages today from FOUR DIFFERENT COUNTRIES!! How cool is that????
A photo of four packages with labels from USA, New Zealand, Great Britain, and Canada
May 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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@creatrixbritt.bsky.social Another #squirrelsighting from my last trip to the park!
A photo of a very tired squirrel sleeping on a tree branch.
April 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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New site update! THERE'S A TD FILTER NOW! You can read the full release notes here if you want: forum.filamentcolors.xyz/d/25-420-rel...
A screenshot from filamentcolors.xyz. It is titled "Filter by TD", and has the following text: Transmission Distance (TD) values are a measure of how much light passes through the filament. This is mostly used with software like HueForge, but also gives you a good idea of how translucent your prints will be. The numbers range from 0 to 100, where 0 blocks all light and 100 is completely clear. Note: we're working on getting this value for more filaments, but right now there is only a small portion of the library with this data. There are two buttons below that, labeled "Sliders" (selected) and "Text". There is a slider titled "TD Min" with a value of 0, and a slider labeled "TD Max" with a value of 100. There is a "Reset Filter" button, an "Apply Filter" button, and a "Close" button.
April 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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@polymaker.bsky.social Your polypalooza link seems to be busted
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April 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I love making jigs! This uses a custom frame and cut foam to hold swatches in the same order that the labels are printed in!
A grid of 80 plastic swatches, arranged in four columns of 20. They're in a 3d-printed holder, currently propped up by a hand. The label at the top of the holder reads "AWAITING LABELS".
March 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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@creatrixbritt.bsky.social Are we still doing #squirrelsighting ? I met a few yesterday... 🐿️
A very tired squirrel lying on a paving stone and surrounded by greenery.
March 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I just made this cat one for a friend!! The sword is badass in yours!
March 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Like behind-the-scenes looks? I have three "tiers" of spooled filament: the stuff I'm actively using (on the carts), the stuff to refill the carts (the closet) and everything else, which is on two large floor-to-ceiling shelves in the basement. And this is just the PLA...
Multiple thin IKEA carts on the floor, each one labeled with a solid color name (green, blue, purple) loaded with spools of 3D printing filament. A view of a small closet filled to the brim with 3D printing filament spools, loosely organized by color.
March 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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What a wild month this has been! I'm so appreciative of all of you who use and enjoy my site!! #3dprinting #filament #filamentcolors
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February 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I'm really not sure how you managed to get this label, but... congrats, I guess?
A screenshot showing nod64.bsky.social's post about 3d printing a plastic nozzle to put small metal nozzles into has been flagged for "intolerance". A screenshot reading: Intolerance. Discrimination against protected groups. This label was applied by Bluesky Moderation Service.
January 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I cannot believe this crazy number. 5000 clicks in 28 days on my little love letter to this hobby!! Thank you all ❤️
A screenshot showing a virtual award for Google Search Impact of 5 thousand clicks in the past 28 days.
January 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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There's... kind of a way! Every filament has a maximum of two color families attached to it, so you can use the quick filters to narrow down your search. (For example, a dual tone white / red will be tagged as both color family white and color family red).

That's a good point that there isn't a 1/2
A screenshot showing selecting a color family of white. A screenshot showing a search of "red" under color family white with two results.
December 25, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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I meant to post this earlier, but I hit a new search milestone!! 😍
A message from Google stating that FilamentColors.xyz has received 4000 clicks from Google Search in the past 28 days as of November 25th, 2024.
December 2, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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This is Devola and Popola 😁
Two identical mirrored Voron V0 3d printers, named for (and with differing art from) the characters Devola and Popola from the Nier games.
December 2, 2024 at 5:22 PM