What are the most popular colors in photographs? That’s a question film photography giant Lomography not only asked, but also analyzed across 15 years of data – and the findings illustrate a curious trend.
Lomography analyzed images shared by its community from 2010 to 2025, plotted the most dominant colors in the photographs for each year, and shared the results in a recent blog post. The chart makes a gradual change in colors obvious: bold colors are shrinking while monochrome tones make up a majority of images.
