PAINT LAB FEATURES
Colour tools designed around miniature paints
Paint Lab combines independently measured paint data with perceptual colour science to help miniature painters search, compare and work with colour.
Whether you are looking for a single paint or planning an entire palette, Paint Lab is designed to turn colour information into practical painting decisions.
PAINT FINDER
Find the nearest measured paints to a colour
Start with:
A paint
Choose an existing paint and explore similar alternatives.
A colour value
Enter supported colour values such as HEX, RGB, OKLab or OKLCH.
A selected colour
Choose a colour visually and search the measured paint database.
Paint Lab converts these inputs into a common colour representation before identifying the nearest measured paints.
PAINT COMPARISON
Understand the difference between two paints
Select two measured paints and compare their colour values directly.
Paint Lab calculates their Euclidean distance in OKLab, providing a consistent numerical indication of their separation in perceptual colour space.
COLOUR RELATIONSHIPS
Build palettes from a starting paint
Starting with one measured paint, Paint Lab can calculate colours belonging to established colour relationships and identify the nearest measured paints.
TINTS, SHADES AND CHROMATIC SCALES
Explore changes in lightness and chroma
Paint Lab can create structured series around a selected colour by changing its lightness or chroma while maintaining its underlying colour relationship.
Use these tools to explore potential highlight, shadow and desaturation sequences.
COLOUR PROGRESSIONS
Build a path between two paints
Choose two paints and Paint Lab calculates intermediate positions along a straight OKLab path.
At each step, the closest measured paint can be identified.
PAINT COLLECTIONS
Search the paints that matter to you
Build a personal collection based on the paints you own.
Paint Lab can then distinguish between:
Closest Paint Overall
and
Closest Paint in My Collection
This makes the database useful whether you own twenty paints or hundreds. Starting with one measured paint, Paint Lab can calculate colours belonging to established colour relationships and identify the nearest measured paints.
COLOUR SPACE EXPLORER
Explore the structure of miniature paint colour
Paint Lab can position measured paints within interactive OKLab and OKLCH visualisations.
Explore relationships that are difficult to see on traditional manufacturer paint charts, including clusters of similar colours, gaps within ranges and differences in lightness or chroma.
IMAGE COLOUR TOOLS
Start with an image
Upload or select an image and identify dominant colours or individual colour regions.
Those colours can then be used as starting points for paint searches.
Paint Lab does not assume that an image displayed on a screen is an exact representation of a physical colour. Instead, image colours are used as searchable digital colour references.