You know the color by number from your childhood, those grids of zones to fill in by following a color code. Memory Pencil builds it from your own photos. Each family picture becomes a numbered coloring page to follow, as a bound book delivered to your door from €29.99, or as a downloadable digital version from €6.99.
The journey
Pick your favorite memories from your phone or computer.
Each photo becomes a keepsake page and a page to color, which we check by hand. You see the result in your personal tracking space, before anything is printed.
Your book is printed on demand by a local partner close to your delivery address, just for you. Sturdy and well made, to be colored today and kept for years.
Your book ships within 5 to 7 business days, ready to color.
Here is what a real photo looks like once we're done with it: the original photo, the color model page, and the numbered coloring page with its legend.
Try it yourself
Send a photo, confirm your email: your color-by-number, zones and legend included, lands in a few minutes.
Your photo is only used to generate the preview, then it's deleted. We keep your email to send you the preview, a few reminders while it's online and the occasional Memory Pencil offer (one-click unsubscribe in every email). Your connection details are stored to limit abuse (details).
Hardback or soft cover depending on the format, thick paper that takes pencils well: this is the object you'll receive. Flip through it as if you were holding it.
The Memory Pencil touch
It's neither a generic coloring book off the shelf nor a regular photo book. The zones and numbers are computed on your image: the result follows the real colors of the photo, the legend is unique to each page, and the colored result looks like your memory. It's guided coloring, where the classic coloring book lets you fill the outline freely. If you'd rather choose the colors yourself, that one is the same magic, without the numbers.
For every age
For children, who are reassured by the numbers: they follow the legend and watch the image reveal itself without fear of picking the wrong color. For adults too, who find in color by number a gentle, meditative activity, without the weight of deciding every shade. And as a gift, it's an attention that lands right away: you recognize the photo, you want to color it.
Three formats
Three sizes, one book. Every album is hand-checked before we print.
The perfect book to gift
The format most families pick when they're gifting.
12 to color + 12 color memories · 21.6 × 21.6 cm (8.5 in)
−25% vs the 6-photo size
Free delivery to your door
Create my 12 photo albumJust €20.00 more than the 12-photo size and you double the page count. Each extra page costs only €0.83.
Personalized items cannot be returned (French consumer code, article L221-28). We check every book before printing.
Not sure yet?
The full album as a PDF, right away. Print it later and its price comes off the book.
Two ways to get it
The printed book is the object to give or to keep: a real bound book, on paper that takes pencils and markers well. The digital version gives you the same color-by-number book as a PDF, right away, from €6.99. You see how your photos turn out without waiting, you keep the file, and you have 30 days to have it printed as a real book if you change your mind.
It's a color-by-number book made from your own photos. Each photo becomes two pages: a model page, your photo turned into a full-color illustration (the result to aim for), and a page to color, where the image is split into empty, numbered zones, with a legend that matches each number to a color. You color by following the numbers and your memory comes back in color.
The starting point is the same, your photos transformed, but the way you color changes. The coloring book gives you an outline page to fill freely, with whatever colors you like. Color by number splits the image into numbered zones and gives you the color code to follow: it's guided coloring, more reassuring for children and more relaxing for adults who like to be led.
Any age. The numbers guide the hand, so from around 4 or 5 a child can follow the legend and watch the image appear. For adults, color by number is a gentle, meditative activity, perfect for unwinding without having to choose the colors yourself.
The same formats and prices as the coloring book. As a printed and bound book, free delivery: €29.99 for 6 photos (12 pages), €44.99 for 12 photos (24 pages) and €64.99 for 24 photos (48 pages). As a downloadable digital version: €6.99, €11.99 and €19.99.
Yes. It's a real bound book, printed on demand on paper that takes pencils and markers well, delivered to your door. The 6-photo format is saddle-stitched, the 12 and 24-photo formats have a hardback cover. Manufacturing is handled by our printing partner, as close as possible to the delivery address.
Yes. The digital version is the same color-by-number book delivered as a PDF, ready to download right away, from €6.99. You see how your photos turn out without committing to the book, you keep the file, and you have 30 days to have it printed as a real bound book if you change your mind.
Once your pages are generated, you have a window to swap, from your tracking space, the photos you're not happy with, with a new version on each try (1 swap included on the 6-photo format, 2 on the 12, 4 on the 24). And before any printing, our team reviews every book to check the zones and numbers are legible.
Create your personalized color by number
From €29.99 as a bound book, or €6.99 as a digital version.
Create my color by numberTheir words, not ours
Incredible! My son loved his book so much he even sleeps with it. The moment he gets home from school, all he wants to do is color HIS book! He remembers every moment, every memory!
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