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Just Perfect Color

I guess the association with Martha Stewart and the running paint codes with some ColourLovers hues is cutesy. I don't mind the color matching I guess but the paint is absolute crap intended for the unquestioning and unsuspecting consumer. You will fight getting it on the walls and do a lot of praying hoping to get it to stay there. You will be hard pressed to find a painter willing to put it on for you.

And what has been so hard about matching colours here to paint chips? Next time you need to do so.

1. Grab the RGB code and go to EASY RGB and just type in the code. Pick a major manufacturer (most all will be there) and the system will display the four closest matches in the color collection you picked. It is free by the way. The system will even tweak the color balance of your monitor on a per session basis for free.

Easy RGB - Color Converter

2. I neither of the four swatches seem close enough, print out a swatch of the color and take it to a real paint store---not a box store--- with a color analyzer and someone who knows how to run it. They should be able to match the color exactly. There system will formulate it to the different paint bases.

And if you must trust a color collection, would you pick Martha or Matisse?

Guggenhiem Color Collection
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