Coloring Commons

Original coloring pages, made to actually be colored.

Every page here is machine-made and original, checked before it is published so no shape is too small to color, and free to print. 1217 of them so far — and if none is quite right, make another one.

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Things to color

Drawn line art — animals, unicorns, dinosaurs, flowers, Christmas. Original drawings, no licensed characters, each one measured before it is published.

Patterns and puzzles

The millimetre on every page

There is one way a coloring page fails that no thumbnail shows: an area too small to get a pencil into. It looks fine on a screen and is obvious the moment somebody tries to color it — the centre of an intricate mandala is usually where it happens.

So nothing is published here until it has been measured. Each design is drawn at print size, every enclosed area is found, and the largest circle that fits inside the smallest area is recorded in millimetres. That number is printed on the page, next to a circle of exactly that size. Easy pages hold to 4.5 mm, intricate ones to 1.9 mm. Designs that miss their rule are regenerated, not published — which is possible because the supply is a program, not a person.

Other ways in

The same pages, cut by how hard they are and who they suit.

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