Find answers to common questions about Paint Lab, colour measurements and using the application.
Paint Lab is a colour-search, comparison and analysis application designed specifically for miniature paints.
Not currently.
Paint Lab helps painters discover and compare paints. Paint products themselves remain products of their respective manufacturers. Are your customers raving about you on social media? Share their great stories to help turn potential customers into loyal ones.
The Paint Lab database is designed around colour information obtained from physical paint samples rather than relying solely on manufacturer web swatches.
Screens and physical paints reproduce colour in fundamentally different ways.
Display calibration, brightness, viewing conditions and the physical properties of paint can all affect appearance.
Paint Lab therefore uses displayed colour as a visual guide while calculations are based on the underlying measured colour data.
ΔEOK is the Euclidean distance between two colours represented in OKLab.
Paint Lab uses this distance to compare measured colours within the database.
No.
It indicates that their measured colour coordinates are closer, but real painted appearance can also be influenced by properties such as opacity, finish, surface preparation and lighting.
Paint Lab is intended to support personal paint collections so results can be restricted or prioritised according to the paints available to you.
Yes.
Currently we have identified 25 we would like to include, but if you think there are companies we're missed, and you would like to see their products included, then please let us know.
Paint measurement and testing are undertaken through the Chroma Institute. If customers can’t find it, it doesn’t exist.