Now that I’ve color geeked out with you for a while, let’s flip to the back of the chip to see what we can learn. The previous series of paint chips shows that the higher this number, the more intense the color. Less intense colors are closer to a neutral grey, where full chroma colors are brighter, more intense shades. You can see that represented in the series of paint chips above, where Pacific Coast Blue (47) is darker than True Turquoise (61), which is darker than Snow Shadow Blue (76). This is essentially the lightness or the darkness of a color, where 0 is pure black and 99 is pure white. The 76 represents the color’s light reflectance value, or LRV. A 00 would mean that the color is closest to the Green hue, and a 99 would mean that it is closest to the Blue hue. Snow Shadow Blue's 50 means that it is in the middle of the Blue Green hue. The number represents where that color falls within the hue. So, Snow Shadow Blue is in the Blue Green hue family. The letters represent where the color lands on a color wheel. Looking at Snow Shadow Blue again, you’ll see that the numbers are: 50BG 76/068.Now in all honesty, these are numbers that you can largely ignore… unless you are a color nerd like me.īut, for my fellow color nerds, I’ll break it down: the 50BG represents the color’s hue. On the left hand side of the chip underneath a color name, you’ll see another series of numbers. So, if you find a color that you like and you think you’d like to see close alternatives, just move up or down the color family. As you can see, they are all tropical blue shades, but they vary in color intensity and vibrancy. For example, Pacific Coast Blue, True Turquoise, and Snow Shadow Blueare sequential. Although it’s not always true, I have noticed that most of the time the sequential numbers are generally steps up or steps down from the next number in the sequence. The number inside of the oval represents a color’s specific place within that color family. Generally, all the colors in the same color family will be housed together on the wall of your local paint store. Glidden paint has identified 8 different color families for its paints: Red (R), Orange (O), Yellow (Y), Green (G), Blue (B), Violet (V), Warm Neutrals (WN) and Cool Neutrals (CN). Every other paint chip on the wall with a B in the oval is also considered part of the blue family, even if it might look a little different to your eye-like perhaps more green than blue. ![]() On this paint chip, the B identifies this chip as a member of the blue family. The letter itself is the color family classification. ![]() On the right side of the paint chip, you’ll see a letter and number in an oval. Let’s use Glidden paint’s Snow Shadow Blue as an example. These Duplicolor color codes also rely on the use of a grey primer for the reds/yellows/blues and a dark-grey primer (black primer) for the greens and blacks.By looking at the front of the paint chip, you can learn several helpful facts about each particular color. They are not close-enough to the original color for partial panel painting mostly due to lack of pearlescent properties. These Duplicolor alternatives should be used for small touch-up or entire panel painting only. Stock Paint Codes for your Yamaha Seca II:īelow is a list of Duplicolor color/paint codes that are an acceptable match to the stock paint codes.
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