Humbrol to Citadel paint conversion chart

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

91 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in Citadel within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 23 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 3.3. The 24 gaps are not spread evenly: 9 of them are yellows, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range Citadel does not answer.

		ΔE
Aluminium	Runefang Steel	2.4
Aluminium	Runefang Steel	2.5
Antique Bronze	Dwarf Bronze	1.0
Army Green	Death Guard Green	2.7
Beige Green	Longbeard Grey	7.5
Black	Abaddon Black	0.0
Black	Abaddon Black	0.0
Black	Corvus Black	2.5
Black Gloss	Abaddon Black	0.0
Black Matt	Black Legion	1.1
Black Satin	Black Legion	2.8
Blue	Storm Blue	1.5
Brass	Leprous Brown	1.7
Brass Metallic	Leprous Brown	3.6
Bright Green	Tesseract Glow	2.6
Bronze Metallic	Brass Scorpion	4.1
Brown	Vermin Fur	3.8
Brunswick Green	Caliban Green	5.4
Brunswick Green	Caliban Green	3.4
Chocolate	Fyreslayer Flesh	1.7
Chrome Silver	Necron Compound	2.7
Chrome Silver	Necron Compound	3.7
Copper	Brass Scorpion	4.3
Cream	Armageddon Dunes	4.0
Crimson	Blood Angels Red	4.1
Dark Brown	Typhon Ash	4.6
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin	Astrogranite	5.8
Dark Earth	Brazen Brass	5.6
Dark Green	Typhus Corrosion	5.7
Dark Green	Snot Green	3.4
Dark Green	Snot Green	3.4
Dark Green	Dryad Bark	4.8
Dark Grey	Eshin Grey	3.4
Desert Tan	Agrellan Badland	3.9
Desert Yellow	Bubonic Brown	3.4
Desert Yellow	Karak Stone	2.8
Duck Egg Blue	Ulthuan Grey	3.5
Emerald Green	Mortarion Green Clear	3.5
Extra Dark Sea Grey	Warpfiend Grey	3.1
Fire Orange	Angron Red Clear	1.6
Flesh	Fire Dragon Bright	3.3
Fluorescent Signal Green	Tesseract Glow	2.6
French Blue	Mordian Blue	2.9
German Camouflage Red	Gore-Grunta Fur	3.6
Gloss Purple	Naggaroth Night	4.7
Gloss Varnish	Corax White	0.0
Gold	Shining Gold	3.7
Gold	Shining Gold	3.3
Grass Green	Death Guard Green	2.5
Grass Green	Death Guard Green	3.0
Grey	Drakenhof Nightshade	3.1
Gun Metal	Typhus Corrosion	5.6
Gunmetal	Black Legion	2.3
Insignia Red	Mechrite Red	4.5
Insignia Yellow	Averland Sunset	1.1
Italian Racing Red	Evil Sunz Scarlet	3.8
Ivory	Longbeard Grey	8.4
Khaki	Tallarn Sand	5.8
Khaki Drill	Sycorax Bronze	3.9
Leather	Tanned Flesh	4.3
Lemon	Phalanx Yellow	1.3
Light Grey	Wrack White	2.3
Light Olive	Aggaros Dunes	3.9
Lime	Scorpion Green	6.2
Lime Green	Rotting Flesh	4.0
Magenta	Warlock Purple	6.1
Matt Olive Drab	Steel Legion Drab	5.5
Matt Tank Grey	Mechanicus Standard Grey	4.6
Mediterranean Blue	Imrik Blue	3.6
Medium Sea Grey	Drakenhof Nightshade	2.4
Middle Blue	Lothern Blue	2.3
Midnight Blue	Soulstone Blue	2.6
Midnight Blue	Soulstone Blue	3.2
Natural Wood	Brazen Brass	0.8
Oak	Bleached Bone	3.0
Ocean Grey	Death Guard Green	3.4
Olive Drab	Steel Legion Drab	6.1
Olive Green	Aggaros Dunes	3.2
Orange	Ryza Rust	3.1
Orange	Ryza Rust	2.4
Pastel Blue	Apothecary White	7.1
Pastel Green	Bilious Green	8.5
Pastel Violet	Tentacle Pink	5.9
Pink	Changeling Pink	7.8
Primer	Eshin Grey	6.1
Primer	Dawnstone	7.6
Purple	Shyish Purple	2.8
RAF Blue	Stormfang	8.9
Red	Angron Red Clear	2.5
Red	Angron Red Clear	2.6
Rust	Deathclaw Brown	2.3
Sand	Ungor Flesh	4.2
Sand	Flesh Wash	3.1
Satin Varnish	Corax White	0.0
Scarlet	Evil Sunz Scarlet	1.4
Sea Grey	Eshin Grey	6.9
Sea Grey	Eshin Grey	5.3
Service Brown	Devlan Mud Wash	5.1
Signal Red	Angron Red Clear	4.0
Silver	Valhallan Blizzard	1.6
Silver	Wrack White	2.3
Tan	Brass Scorpion	4.0
Tank Grey	Mechanicus Standard Grey	6.1
Trainer Yellow	Golden Yellow	1.7
US Ghost Grey	Grey Knights Steel	1.8
US Light Green	Knarloc Green	5.5
US Tan	Seraphim Sepia	3.1
WWI Blue	Stormfang	3.1
White	Corax White	0.0
White	Corax White	0.0
White	Corax White	0.0
White Gloss	'Ardcoat	2.7
White Matt	Dryad Bark	4.7
Yellow	Yriel Yellow	1.2
Yellow	Yriel Yellow	1.0

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