Match Paint Colors to Print Colors

Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 10:10 a.m.
Have you found a color on a printout or on a web page, and you'd like to match paint colors to print colors in a gallon of paint? Say you found the perfect hue of blue for your bathroom on a web page, and you want that EXACT color in a gallon of paint. One would think you'd simply need the RGB, HEX, CMYK or HSB values and you could take those to the paint store. Unfortunately, it is not that simple. Learn how to match paint colors to print colors or computer colors in this woodworking tip.


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