When I first joined Instagram I loved it but felt a little out of place - so many of the accounts I followed were full of muted and minimal colours: a sea of soft greys and browns and lots of white space.
But of course, there are loads of colour-lovers on Instagram and loads of great hashtags for sharing your colourful photos or finding new colour-filled accounts to follow. So I thought it might be helpful to share some of my faves in a blog post in case other people are struggling to find the colourful side of Instagram.
(Well this post started out as a short list of my faves... and I got a bit carried away! The more colour-focused hashtags the better, right??)
Before I begin - one of the tricky things about colour themed hashtags is that there are two different ways to spell colour (or color). If there are two popular versions of a tag I'll in this list along with the current numbers of photos shared under each, so you can see how they compare. Usually the American spelling is most popular, but not always!
Ready to fill your Instagram feed with colour? Here goes...
1. #ihavethisthingwithcolor (150K) #ihavethisthingwithcolour (16K)
2. #ihavethisthingwithpink (100K)
3. #abmlifeiscolorful (1.5 million)
4. #capturingcolor (16K) #capturingcolour (78K)
5. #colorcolourlovers (123K)
6. #colorventures (283K) #colourventures (4K)
7. #dscolor (825K)
8. #dspink (38K)
9. #livecolorfully (1.4 million) #livecolourfully (60K)
10. #candyminimal (318K)
11. #colormehappy (116K) #colourmehappy (63K)
12. #colorinspiration (114K) #colourinspiration (56K)
13. #colorlove (146K) #colourlove (51K)
14. #colorlover (50K) #colourlover (8K)
15. #colorlovers (28K) #colourlovers (25K)
16. #colorgram (354K) #colourgram (5K)
17. #dailydoseofcolor (39K) #dailydoseofcolour (1K)
18. #colormyjoy (3K) #colourmyjoy (9K)
19. #colors_ofourlives (225K) #colors_ofourlives (3K)
20. #colorsplash (977K) coloursplash (290K)
21. #brightcolors (386K) #brightcolours (122K)
22. #ilovecolor (102K) #ilovecolour (21K)
23. #coloraddict (37K) #colouraddict (8K)
24. #colorblockvibes (3K)
25. #happycolors (73K) #happycolours (23K)
26. #colorsorganizedneatly (1K)
27. #popyacolor (45K) #popyacolour (411K)
28. #colorhunting (11K) #colourhunting (8K)
29. #colorhunter (10K)
30. #popsofcolor (20K) #popsofcolour (4K)
31. #allthecolors (76K) #allthecolours (36K)
32. #thatcolorproject (193K) #thatcolourproject (1K)
33. #colourmyhome (10K)
34. #colormyworld (46K) #colourmyworld (18K)
35. #coloryourworld (29K) #colouryourworld (23K)
36. #inspirationiscolour (9K)
37. #showusthecolor (9K)
38. #brightcolorsmakemehappy (8K) #brightcoloursmakemehappy (3K)
39. #candycolors (100K) #candycolours (9K)
40. #colorpalette (136K) #colourpalette (69K)
41. #foundpalettes (7K)
42. #huntgramcolor (39K)
43. #colorsplurge (791K)
44. #colorfullycrafted (21K)
45. #howihue (42K)
46. #colormakesmehappy (11K) #colourmakesmehappy (3K)
47. #craftherainbow (60K)
48. #madeitrainbow (2K)
49. #dsrainbow (16K)
50. #my_flatlayrainbow (less than 1K)
51. #iloverainbows (17K)
52. #colorcrush (126K) #colourcrush (20K)
53. #colorexplosion (30K) #colourexplosion (14K)
54. #color_me_minimal (56K)
Know any other great hashtags for colour lovers? Share them in the comments!
Click here to check out my colourful Instagram account: lauralupinhoward
