You might have seen this around once or twice before, but I just wanted to get it out to as many people as possible. It is a free online tool that works sort of like those paint matching machines they use at the home stores and what not. Right now it has around 35 lines of paint and 4000 some odd paints in the system. They range form model paints to craft and spray paints - and a lot of stuff in between.
The first tool of the suite allows you to look up one color at a time. You can either enter in an RGB number (using hexidecimal format) or select a paint from a line and look up matches in other paint lines. This comes in useful if you are reading an article and it calls out a paint that is no longer available or isn’t available in your area (or is only available in an enamel and you prefer to use water based paints).
A quick run down on how to use it:
Select the type of search you want to do - RGB or Paint matching.
For RGB Searches, simply enter in your RGB info and click the Submit button. Your results should display on the right.
For Paint Searches, select a paint line and click submit in order to load the color swatches (for those who might be interested - I am working on an Ajax version which automatically refreshes). When the swatches apear find the swatch you want to match other paints to and go ahead and click the radio button below it. Click submit again in order to get the results.
You can further refine your search using the options on the bottom. All the lists in this section are Multi-Select lists, hold down the Ctrl key and you can add as many as you want from each list to fine tune your search.
- Color range is the color space distance that will be used to determine if a paint is a match. Smaller numbers are will provide the best matches - but fewer of th