To provide porous monodispersed particles obtained by preparing, as seed
particles, poly(methyl methacrylate) particles or acrylic resin particles
comprising 70% by mass or more of methyl methacrylate as a
copolymerization component, swelling the seed particles 20 to 80 times
the size of the original seed particles by mass using a swelling solution
comprising an oil-soluble polymerization initiator and a monomer mixture
containing 70% by mass or more of methyl methacrylate and 3 to 8% by mass
of divinylbenzene, and polymerizing the monomers. The particles are
porous particles with a diameter of the order of micrometers and a narrow
particle-size distribution and are monodispersed. Colored monodispersed
particles obtained by agglomerating a pigment in the porous monodispersed
particles are monodispersed and spherical, and contain a large amount of
pigment therein.