Paint Equivalents

Humbrol to Arteza paint conversion chart

Every Humbrol paint with its closest Arteza equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 115 rows, sorted by name.

48 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in Arteza within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 8 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 5.6. The 67 gaps are not spread evenly: 19 of them are yellows, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range Arteza does not answer.

HumbrolArtezaΔE
Aluminium Cold Gray 6.7
Aluminium Cold Gray 4.3
Antique Bronze Pearl Copper Gold 1.8
Army Green Pearl Olive Green 7.1
Beige Green Light Apricot 14.7
Black Mars Black 5.0
Black Mars Black 5.0
Black Mars Black 5.2
Black Gloss Mars Black 5.0
Black Matt Mars Black 4.7
Black Satin Vandyke Brown 6.6
Blue Phthalo Blue 4.6
Brass Yellow Ochre 3.7
Brass Metallic Yellow Ochre 4.4
Bright Green Pearl Lime Green 10.3
Bronze Metallic Pearl Copper Gold 7.7
Brown Pearl Deep Brown 5.5
Brunswick Green Prussian Green 5.6
Brunswick Green Prussian Green 3.9
Chocolate Pearl Deep Brown 4.7
Chrome Silver Silver 2.1
Chrome Silver Silver 3.7
Copper Pearl Copper Gold 8.2
Cream Lemon Yellow 7.3
Crimson Pearl Strawberry Red 4.7
Dark Brown Light Apricot 7.1
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin Gray 10.3
Dark Earth Pearl Deep Brown 3.6
Dark Green Olive Green 11.8
Dark Green Mid Green 3.3
Dark Green Mid Green 3.7
Dark Green Mars Black 9.6
Dark Grey Pearl Space Grey 3.5
Desert Tan Pearl Chartreuse 13.2
Desert Yellow Pearl Golden Hour 3.4
Desert Yellow Pearl Golden Hour 5.6
Duck Egg Blue Silver 9.2
Emerald Green Yellow Green 7.3
Extra Dark Sea Grey Gray 13.0
Fire Orange Vermillion Red 6.1
Flesh Pearl Papya Orange 3.5
Fluorescent Signal Green Pearl Lime Green 10.3
French Blue Pearl Sapphire Blue 2.0
German Camouflage Red Pearl Deep Brown 7.1
Gloss Purple Prussian Blue 7.0
Gloss Varnish Titanium White 1.4
Gold Yellow Pale 3.3
Gold Yellow Pale 3.5
Grass Green Pearl Olive Green 6.9
Grass Green Pearl Olive Green 7.8
Grey Silver 5.1
Gun Metal Olive Green 13.0
Gunmetal Payne's Gray 6.7
Insignia Red Crimson Red 0.8
Insignia Yellow Yellow Pale 7.9
Italian Racing Red Carmine Red 0.8
Ivory Light Apricot 8.9
Khaki Oxide Yellow 9.7
Khaki Drill Raw Sienna 11.0
Leather Mars Orange 5.4
Lemon Mid Yellow 6.0
Light Grey Silver 5.9
Light Olive Olive Green 11.6
Lime Pearl Lime Green 10.4
Lime Green Pearl Pistachio Green 9.2
Magenta Pearl Hot Pink 8.2
Matt Olive Drab Olive Green 7.2
Matt Tank Grey Phthalo Green 7.0
Mediterranean Blue Pearl Electrlc Blue 7.4
Medium Sea Grey Silver 5.0
Middle Blue Pearl Electrlc Blue 5.9
Midnight Blue Phthalo Blue 3.0
Midnight Blue Phthalo Blue 3.1
Natural Wood Pearl Copper Gold 3.6
Oak Light Apricot 3.2
Ocean Grey Pearl Olive Green 7.5
Olive Drab Olive Green 5.1
Olive Green Pearl Deep Brown 10.4
Orange Pearl Tangerine Orange 3.9
Orange Pearl Tangerine Orange 3.2
Pastel Blue Cold Gray 6.1
Pastel Green Pearl Pistachio Green 13.0
Pastel Violet Pearl Lilac 9.2
Pink Pink 10.0
Primer Pearl Space Grey 6.3
Primer Deep Green 8.9
Purple Phthalo Blue 10.5
RAF Blue Mauve Pole 11.9
Red Carmine Red 4.2
Red Pearl Pink Tulip 5.2
Rust Pearl Copper Gold 6.4
Sand Yellow Ochre 4.5
Sand Aztec Gold 3.4
Satin Varnish Titanium White 1.4
Scarlet Carmine Red 3.3
Sea Grey Pearl Space Grey 7.7
Sea Grey Pearl Space Grey 5.5
Service Brown Raw Umber 6.3
Signal Red Mars Orange 6.4
Silver Silver 3.5
Silver Silver 5.6
Tan Pearl Copper Gold 7.6
Tank Grey Phthalo Green 7.4
Trainer Yellow Mid Yellow 5.0
US Ghost Grey Cold Gray 4.4
US Light Green Olive Green 6.9
US Tan Bronze 4.4
WWI Blue Cerulean Blue 9.2
White Titanium White 1.4
White Titanium White 1.4
White Titanium White 1.4
White Gloss Titanium White 2.5
White Matt Payne's Gray 4.9
Yellow Mid Yellow 4.0
Yellow Mid Yellow 3.6

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