Last Updated: 1st August, 2025
Here’s How It Works
Everything on Colorlify is free for you and your family. Download whatever you want, print until your ink runs out, let the kids color all over them – that’s exactly what we made them for.
The catch? Don’t try to make money off our work. We’re not talking about getting paid to babysit while kids color our pages – we mean actually selling our designs or using them in your business without asking first.
Want to use our stuff to make money? Cool, just send us an email first. We say yes more often than you’d think.
What You’re Totally Allowed to Do
Personal Stuff – No Limits Here
- Print as many as you want (seriously, go nuts)
- Color them however you like – realistic horses or purple elephants, we don’t judge
- Give copies to friends, neighbors, that weird uncle who collects unicorn pictures
- Put them on your fridge, bedroom walls, or wherever makes you smile
- Use them when you’re stressed out from work or need something mindless to do
School and Teaching – We Actually Love This
- Teachers can print them for classes without asking permission first
- Homeschool parents can add them to lesson plans and not worry about copyright nonsense
- Libraries can use them for story time or craft sessions
- Therapists working with kids (or adults) can include them in sessions
- Daycare workers can keep a stack for when it’s raining and everyone’s going crazy
Sharing Online – Spread the Fun
- Post your finished coloring jobs on Instagram, Facebook, wherever
- Pin our pages on Pinterest (please do this, it helps us out)
- Email them to grandparents who love seeing what the kids are up to
- Put them on your personal blog or family website
Just mention where you got them. “Found this on Colorlify” works fine – nothing fancy needed.
What’ll Get You in Trouble
Making Money – This is Our Big No
Look, we put hours into drawing these things. We’ve got bills to pay and coffee habits to support. So here’s what you can’t do:
Selling our pages:
- Don’t charge people to download them
- Can’t print them out and sell copies at craft fairs
- No putting them in coloring books you’re trying to sell on Amazon
- Don’t sell your colored versions as “original artwork”
Using them in your business:
- Can’t slap our butterfly design on coffee mugs you’re selling
- Don’t use our unicorn as your bakery logo
- Can’t put our pages in your company’s marketing brochures
- No using them as decorations in products you’re making money from
Making money from websites:
- Don’t put our stuff on sites where people pay for access
- Can’t include them in subscription boxes or paid download packs
- No making ad revenue from websites that are basically just our coloring pages
- Don’t upload them to sites where you get paid per download
Other Stuff That’ll Annoy Us
- Don’t claim you made them: These came from our brains and drawing tablets, not yours
- Leave our name on them: If we put a little credit somewhere, don’t erase it
- Don’t dump our whole collection somewhere: Sharing a few pages is fine, uploading everything to some file-sharing site isn’t
The Complicated Stuff
Sometimes it’s not clear-cut. When you’re not sure, just email us at [email protected]:
Might Be Fine, But Ask First:
- Giving away promotional stuff that includes our designs
- Selling educational packets that happen to include our pages
- Using them in apps or computer programs
- Changing our designs significantly for your own projects
- Making YouTube videos or podcasts that feature our pages (especially if you’re making money from ads)
Probably Cool, But We’d Like to Know:
- Whole school districts wanting to use our stuff
- Registered charities or nonprofits using them for programs
- College researchers including them in studies about art therapy or whatever
- Translating our pages into other languages (we think this is awesome, actually)
Who Owns What Around Here
Let’s clear this up because people get confused:
We own the original drawings. Every single coloring page on Colorlify started as a sketch on our end. We’ve got the copyright, which basically means we get to decide who uses them for business stuff.
You don’t own them just because you downloaded them. It’s like borrowing a friend’s car – you can drive it, but it’s still their car.
Your colored version is yours. Once you’ve added your own artistic genius with crayons or markers, that particular colored page shows your creativity. Share photos of it, give it to grandma, hang it in a gallery if you want.
About Popular Characters
Sometimes we draw characters that remind people of famous cartoons, movies, or video games. We’re not connected to Disney, Marvel, or any of those big companies. Our versions are original drawings inspired by stuff we all grew up loving.
We make these character pages so families can enjoy coloring their favorite heroes and princesses at home. It’s all covered under fair use for personal enjoyment.
Giving Us Credit When You Share
When you post our stuff online, a little shout-out helps us keep making more:
Easy ways to credit us:
- Basic: “From Colorlify”
- Better: “Free coloring page from Colorlify.com“
- Best: Actually link to our website so people can find us
Where to mention us:
- Instagram captions or comments
- Pinterest descriptions
- Blog posts where you share our pages
- YouTube video descriptions
Don’t stress about it – we’re not grammar police. Just let people know where you found the good stuff.
Commercial Licensing – Let’s Make a Deal
We’re pretty reasonable about commercial licensing. Here’s how it usually goes:
What affects the price:
- What you want to do: Using one design in an ad is different from putting 50 designs in a book you’re selling
- How big your business is: Local craft shop vs. international corporation matters
- How long you need it: One-time use or permanent license
- Do you want exclusive rights: Costs more if you don’t want anyone else using the same design
Our pricing philosophy:
- Keep it affordable, especially for small businesses and teachers
- Bulk deals if you need lots of designs
- Special rates for nonprofits and schools
- We’d rather make a little money than no money, so we’re flexible
How to start:
Email [email protected] and tell us:
- Which designs caught your eye
- What you want to do with them
- When you need to use them
- What kind of budget you’re working with
We’ll get back to you fast with a fair offer.
Special Cases We Consider
Nonprofits and Charities
We love helping good causes. Registered nonprofits often get special deals or sometimes free commercial use for fundraising events and programs. Just prove you’re legit and tell us what you’re doing.
Teachers and Educational Companies
Schools get special treatment. If you’re making educational materials to sell, we can usually work out licensing that won’t eat your entire budget. Teachers do important work and shouldn’t have to pay through the nose for resources.
People Outside the US
Our rules work the same everywhere. International businesses wanting commercial licenses just need to email us like everyone else. We’ve worked with people from all over – it’s not complicated.
What Happens When People Break the Rules
We really don’t want to be the bad guys here, but sometimes we have to protect our work:
First time offenders usually get:
A friendly email explaining the situation. Most people just didn’t realize they were breaking rules and fix things right away.
If that doesn’t work:
- Official cease and desist letters
- DMCA takedown requests for online stuff
- Actual lawyers if someone’s making serious money off our work
But we’d rather talk:
Before things get ugly, let’s have a conversation. Maybe we can work out a licensing deal even after the fact. It’s way easier than fighting about it.
Updates and Changes
We might update this policy sometimes when:
- People ask questions that show we need to clarify something
- We think of new ways people can use our stuff
- Copyright laws change (they do sometimes)
- We want to offer new types of licenses
When we change things:
- The date at the top gets updated
- Big changes get announced on the main website
- Newsletter subscribers hear about major updates
Questions and Contact
Seriously, don’t sit there wondering if something’s okay. Just email us.
Email: [email protected]
Subject lines that help us respond faster:
- “Quick Licensing Question” for general stuff
- “Commercial License Request” for business inquiries
- “Teacher Question” for school-related stuff
We usually respond in: 1-2 days on weekdays (sometimes same day if we’re not swamped)
Questions We Get All the Time:
Can I sell stuff on Etsy using your designs?
Not without paying for a license first, but let’s talk numbers.
What if I change your designs a lot?
Personal use? Go for it. Commercial use? We need to discuss it.
Can I make versions in Spanish/French/whatever?
We love making our stuff available to more people. Let’s work something out.
YouTube videos with your coloring pages?
Depends if you’re making money from the videos, but probably fine.
Why We Do This
We started Colorlify because buying coloring books gets expensive, especially if you’ve got multiple kids who burn through them fast. Everyone should be able to print quality coloring pages at home without spending a fortune.
Our licensing terms try to be fair to everyone – free for families and teachers, reasonable prices for businesses. We’re not trying to get rich off licensing fees, just make enough to keep creating new designs.
If you’re ever confused about what you can do, don’t guess. Ask us. We’re actual humans who understand that creative projects can get complicated, and we’d rather help you do things the right way than deal with problems later.
Thanks for using our stuff responsibly and being part of what we’re building here. Now stop reading legal stuff and go color something!
We wrote this in regular English because legal jargon helps nobody. Questions? Email us.
