With the official reveal of the next LEGO® Modular Buildings Collection set, it will also see a slight change to the appearance of the building instructions. To match the new ‘adult’ design of the packaging for LEGO Icons sets, the instructions featured a black cover. This will be changed to a lighter colour for 2023 sets due to the introduction of paper-based bags. Here’s from the LEGO Group regarding this change:
“As our fans have noticed, the covers of building instructions for many of our sets underwent a re-design this year with exception of our LEGO® sets for adults. Starting from 1HY 2023, building instructions for adult sets will also feature re-designed covers with lighter background prints. The redesign of building instruction covers is connected to our move to paper-based bags in our boxes. A lighter background print ensures that we maintain our very high quality standards. In this case, that the visual appearance of the paper-based bags is not impacted by potential ink marks caused by friction between building instructions and bags during transportation.”
