Paint Equivalents

Humbrol to FolkArt paint conversion chart

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

91 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in FolkArt 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 3.4. The 24 gaps are not spread evenly: 8 of them are reds, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range FolkArt does not answer.

HumbrolFolkArtΔE
Aluminium Licorice 3.8
Aluminium Medium Gray 3.6
Antique Bronze English Mustard 2.3
Army Green Fresh Foliage 1.5
Beige Green Soft Apple 6.2
Black Look At Me Blue 0.8
Black Look At Me Blue 0.8
Black Burnt Umber 2.1
Black Gloss Look At Me Blue 0.8
Black Matt Pure Black 1.2
Black Satin Pure Black 2.7
Blue Brilliant Blue 3.6
Brass School Bus Yellow 4.4
Brass Metallic School Bus Yellow 4.6
Bright Green Apple Orchard 4.5
Bronze Metallic English Mustard 5.9
Brown Copper 3.4
Brunswick Green Christmas Green 3.7
Brunswick Green Christmas Green 4.9
Chocolate Burnt Sienna 3.1
Chrome Silver Titanium White 2.0
Chrome Silver Sky Mist 3.2
Copper Pure Orange 3.5
Cream Pale Yellow 2.9
Crimson Lipstick Red 2.6
Dark Brown Spun Sugar 1.7
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin Parchment 3.0
Dark Earth Rose Gold 1.8
Dark Green Peridot 5.6
Dark Green Holly Leaf 2.9
Dark Green Holly Leaf 2.9
Dark Green Cocoa 4.4
Dark Grey Payne Gray 5.4
Desert Tan Vintage White 4.4
Desert Yellow School Bus Yellow 4.5
Desert Yellow Yellow Ochre 4.3
Duck Egg Blue Aquamarine 2.4
Emerald Green Bright Green 6.3
Extra Dark Sea Grey Steel Gray 2.0
Fire Orange Autumn Leaves 6.3
Flesh Summer Peach 4.4
Fluorescent Signal Green Apple Orchard 4.5
French Blue Blue Ribbon 2.1
German Camouflage Red Burnt Sienna 4.2
Gloss Purple Purple 2.5
Gloss Varnish Wicker White 1.4
Gold Medium Yellow 4.1
Gold Medium Yellow 4.3
Grass Green Peridot 2.7
Grass Green Fresh Foliage 3.3
Grey Deep Ocean Blue 2.2
Gun Metal Licorice 8.0
Gunmetal Gilded Oak 1.4
Insignia Red Lipstick Red 2.2
Insignia Yellow Marigold 7.0
Italian Racing Red Lipstick Red 4.6
Ivory French Vanilla 6.1
Khaki Starlight Gold 2.3
Khaki Drill Prairie Sage 4.1
Leather Pure Orange 2.1
Lemon Yellow Light 1.2
Light Grey Cottage White 1.5
Light Olive Butter Pecan 3.0
Lime Lime Green 1.1
Lime Green Soft Apple 1.7
Magenta Podge Pink 7.4
Matt Olive Drab Pure Gold 3.4
Matt Tank Grey Grotto 3.5
Mediterranean Blue Aqua Moire 5.8
Medium Sea Grey Baby Blue 1.6
Middle Blue Aqua Moire 2.7
Midnight Blue Ink Spot 2.3
Midnight Blue Brilliant Blue 2.0
Natural Wood Pumpkin 4.2
Oak Buttercream 2.1
Ocean Grey Fresh Foliage 3.4
Olive Drab Pure Gold 3.9
Olive Green Glam Gold 2.7
Orange Glazed Carrots 5.7
Orange Glazed Carrots 6.3
Pastel Blue Blue Lullaby 8.4
Pastel Green Soft Apple 5.9
Pastel Violet Light Peony 5.7
Pink French Lilac 5.5
Primer Classic French Gray 2.5
Primer Greenscape 5.1
Purple Violet Pansy 4.5
RAF Blue Wisteria 3.8
Red Calico Red 7.7
Red Cardinal Red 5.9
Rust Fire Opal 6.5
Sand Turner Yellow 3.5
Sand Vivid Orange 4.7
Satin Varnish Wicker White 1.4
Scarlet Lipstick Red 5.3
Sea Grey Classic French Gray 2.1
Sea Grey Ash 2.1
Service Brown Lemon Custard 4.3
Signal Red Autumn Leaves 5.5
Silver Dove 0.0
Silver Cottage White 1.5
Tan Pure Orange 4.1
Tank Grey Midnight Garden 2.9
Trainer Yellow Honey Glaze 5.4
US Ghost Grey Marina Mist 4.3
US Light Green Crocodile 1.0
US Tan Iced Coffee 2.8
WWI Blue Deep Ocean Blue 4.9
White Wicker White 1.4
White Wicker White 1.4
White Wicker White 1.4
White Gloss Wicker White 2.5
White Matt Licorice 1.9
Yellow Bumblebee 3.3
Yellow Bumblebee 3.1

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