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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 12/09/2026

Cool. It started again. Cool cool cool. Every hit is different. I don't know how I'm supposed to block this.

Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 11/09/2026

Unfortunately, it worked perfectly. The unique user count dropped back to what I expected, and we've been holding steady there. Bleh. I'll disable the attack mode blockade here shortly; hopefully that was enough to convince this round of bots to leave us alone.

A graph showing the number of unique visitors to filamentcolors.xyz spiking up to 150 an hour sustained and then dropping suddenly back to 10 an hour.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 02/02/2026

Is it possible to 'refresh' the data show show the latest version of the article? The doomscroll version has a typo that the article has since fixed.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 02/02/2026

Fixed a minor bug today that would only show up for power users -- if you have delta E distances turned on, the values under third party colors were wildly wrong thanks to a conversion error. They're actually accurate now ^_^

A screenshot showing a Delta E value of 72, which would imply that it's about as similar to the target color as yellow is to purple.

A screenshot showing a Delta E of 2.6, which is extremely reasonable and is a very close match.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 01/02/2026

This is why we can't have nice things 😒

A screenshot of error logs where someone keeps trying different types of SQL injections to try and take over the website.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 19/01/2026

2016 throwbacks, you say? In 2012 I was working with ZCorp powder printers, but 2016 was the first time I worked with consumer #3Dprinting. I've been hooked ever since :)

A picture of a laptop running Simplify3D hooked up to a Flashforge Creator Pro. The photo was taken in March of 2016.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 31/12/2025

This has been a really weird year. So many things have gone wrong, but a bunch of things went right too. Looking back, the thing that I'm most thankful for is you, the folks who use the site and build amazing projects. Here's to 2026!

A screenshot of analytics for filamentcolors.xyz showing the year to date. 224 thousand unique visitors throughout the year, with an average of about 18 thousand visitors a month.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 09/12/2025

So I was trying to melt out an incredibly bad layered clog (something I've done dozens of times over the years) and had something new happen: the nozzle exploded! Thankfully I'm unhurt, but it was about as loud as a gunshot and my ears were RINGING. Have you seen this before?? #3dprinting

A picture of a Prusa nozzle that is missing the entire 'nozzle' part of the assembly.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 13/09/2025

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

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 25/08/2025

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.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 10/07/2025

Lucky for me, I'm good at this. But also... -sigh-

A picture of a bag with many strands of broken filament.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 05/07/2025

The joys of running TPU at 60mm/s...

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 22/06/2025

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

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 25/05/2025

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.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 20/05/2025

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.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 10/05/2025

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.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 06/05/2025

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

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 04/05/2025

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.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 03/05/2025

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

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 10/04/2025

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.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 29/03/2025

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".

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 12/03/2025

I just made this cat one for a friend!! The sword is badass in yours!

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 09/03/2025

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.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 01/02/2025

What a wild month this has been! I'm so appreciative of all of you who use and enjoy my site!! #3dprinting #filament #filamentcolors

A screenshot from the Plausible.io report for FilamentColors.xyz for January of 2025.

Unique Visitors: 20.7k (+16%)
Pageviews: 74.5k (+15%)

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 26/01/2025

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.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 23/01/2025

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.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 25/12/2024

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.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 02/12/2024

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.

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Filament Librarian @filamentcolors.xyz · 22/11/2024

Hey there! Thank you so much for setting this up! I'm not sure what all goes into it, but bsky is giving me a `NotEnoughResources` error when I try to access it:

A screenshot of the 3D printing feed, showing the following message: "Hmm, some kind of issue occurred when contacting the feed server. Please let the feed owner know about this issue. Message from server: NotEnoughResources"

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