SubMouse
Home › Top directory › r/Colorization

r/Colorization

Colorization - The colorization of old black & white photos

r/Colorization is a safe-for-work community on Reddit, ranked #774 on SubMouse with 1,374,874 subscribers and about 1.5 new posts a day.

Rank (SFW)#774
Subscribers1.4M
Growth since Nov 2+119
Posts per day1.5
Posts all time45.4K
CreatedDec 2011
Visit r/Colorization on Reddit ↗

About r/Colorization

In its own words:

/r/Colorization] is a subreddit that is dedicated to sharing black and white photos that you have colorized. Colorization can be very time-consuming but the results are often amazing. We offer information and experience on how to colorize old photos.

Community guide

r/Colorization (#773, about 1.4 million subscribers) — /r/Colorization] is a subreddit that is dedicated to sharing black and white photos that you have colorized. Colorization can be very time-consuming but the results are often amazing. We offer information and… A recent sample averaged 1.5 posts a day (~77% gallery, ~8% image, ~8% video). Its public rules include: Treat others with respect; Original UNALTERED black and white photo needs to be included; Every post title must be an informative title (DATE must be included); Not see your post?; A.I colorizations.

What belongs here

Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: Treat others with respect; Original UNALTERED black and white photo needs to be included; Every post title must be an informative title (DATE must be included); Not see your post?.

How it differs from lookalikes

Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.

Practical pointers

Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Common flairs include: Photo post, Help Needed, Video Post.

The community was created on Dec 27, 2011, which makes it 14 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 119 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/LegalAdviceUK (#773) and ahead of r/notinteresting (#775) in our ranking.

What sets r/Colorization apart

r/Colorization is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 4.8 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.0. Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 1.1 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here.

Subscriber growth

1.37M1.37MSep 19Nov 9, 2026

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/Colorization grew from 1,373,965 to 1,374,874 subscribers (+909, +0.07%). That is about 18 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/Colorization this week

What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 8, 2026).

  1. May 2, 1947, Los Angeles, California: Newspaper boy selling papers amidst traffic.u/morganmonroe81 · Nov 2 · gallery
  2. Jacqueline Bisset - from The Deep (1977)u/LJM22 · Nov 7 · image
  3. Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, c. 1886, taken by Nadar.u/LombardieColorings · Nov 5 · gallery
  4. Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi, c.1872, taken by Ferdinand Mulnieru/LombardieColorings · Nov 3 · gallery
  5. Second Lieutenant from the "Yungay" Cavalry Regiment. c1890. Chileu/Bermellon1879 · Nov 3 · gallery
  6. Gondola in the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy 1930u/Oneiricroad · Nov 6 · gallery

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/Colorization, from 2019 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

  1. Girl in corner of kitchen in family tent home, 1939u/No_Gap_1756 · Feb 2, 2026 · gallery
  2. Churchill's 90th b'day, 30 Nov 1964, 2 months before death.u/TLColors · Feb 18, 2026 · gallery
  3. A Protest for Girls to Be Able to Wear Slacks, 1942u/Oneiricroad · Mar 15, 2025 · gallery
  4. Restored color image of my Grandfathers Navy pic from 1942u/HutchinsonGM3 · Jul 31, 2026 · image
  5. A Dutch potatoes diggers having a meal on the field. The Netherlands - near Groningen, 1940u/Actual-Brother-2170 · Jul 26, 2026 · gallery
  6. Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa Einstein, 31 May 1921.u/WorldHub995 · Feb 25, 2025 · image
  7. Governor and staff of Nazareth, Palestine, 1910s.u/omergelirtarihh · Dec 9, 2024 · gallery
  8. Japanese-American college students during their relocation to an internment camp. Sacramento, 1942.u/colouringhistory · May 7, 2019 · 3,749 points · 152 comments · image
  9. The Damms Family, Homeless, LA, 1987.u/TLColors · Aug 7, 2025 · gallery
  10. "Two pals." From 'The human side of animals', 1918u/xXGravityCatXx · Dec 20, 2024 · gallery

Activity and best time to post

r/Colorization gets about 1.5 new posts a day. The public archive holds 45,416 posts and 219,726 comments in total, about 4.8 comments per post.

00: 00001: 002: 003: 00304: 105: 006: 00607: 108: 009: 00910: 211: 112: 11213: 014: 015: 11516: 017: 118: 11819: 220: 021: 02122: 223: 0
Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026

Rules of r/Colorization

The moderators of r/Colorization list 9 rules. In short:

  1. Treat others with respect
  2. Original UNALTERED black and white photo needs to be included
  3. Every post title must be an informative title (DATE must be included)
  4. Not see your post?
  5. A.I colorizations
  6. User flairs
  7. No Sales, No tips (money tips) and no requests
  8. Links to your social media are allowed
  9. Using other peoples colorized photos

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/Colorization and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How big is r/Colorization?

r/Colorization has 1,374,874 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #774 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 909 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

How old is r/Colorization?

r/Colorization was created on Dec 27, 2011, so it has been around for 14 years.

How active is r/Colorization?

Moderately: r/Colorization gets about 1.5 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 45,416 posts and 219,726 comments.

What is r/Colorization about?

The community describes itself as: “/r/Colorization] is a subreddit that is dedicated to sharing black and white photos that you have colorized. Colorization can be very time-consuming but the results are often amazing. We offer information and experience…” Recent post titles often mention taken.

Is r/Colorization safe for work?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Colorization as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

How do I post on r/Colorization?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Colorization accepts both text and link posts, with images and galleries enabled. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “Treat others with respect”; “Original UNALTERED black and white photo needs to be included”; “Every post title must be an informative title (DATE must be included)”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Which communities are like r/Colorization?

Communities with similar topics include r/TheWayWeWere (1.7M).

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Colorization.

← #773 r/LegalAdviceUK #775 r/notinteresting →