Paint Equivalents

Humbrol to Golden paint conversion chart

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

69 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in Golden within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 22 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 4.5. The 46 gaps are not spread evenly: 13 of them are yellows, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range Golden does not answer.

HumbrolGoldenΔE
Aluminium Zinc White 4.0
Aluminium Zinc White 4.0
Antique Bronze Raw Sienna 4.5
Army Green Terre Verte Hue 5.8
Beige Green Titan Green Pale 9.8
Black Carbon Black 4.6
Black Carbon Black 4.6
Black Carbon Black 1.4
Black Gloss Carbon Black 4.6
Black Matt Carbon Black 2.6
Black Satin Bone Black 3.9
Blue Phthalo Blue (green Shade) 2.1
Brass Nickel Azo Yellow 1.8
Brass Metallic Nickel Azo Yellow 2.2
Bright Green Light Green (blue Shade) 10.2
Bronze Metallic Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide 3.3
Brown Raw Sienna 6.0
Brunswick Green Chromium Oxide Green Dark 3.6
Brunswick Green Chromium Oxide Green Dark 5.4
Chocolate Burnt Sienna 6.7
Chrome Silver Titanium White 2.7
Chrome Silver Titanium White 2.9
Copper Raw Sienna 4.7
Cream Naples Yellow Hue 4.3
Crimson Pyrrole Red Dark 1.7
Dark Brown Titan Buff 5.8
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin N5 Neutral Gray 6.3
Dark Earth Raw Sienna 8.1
Dark Green Sap Green Hue 0.8
Dark Green Phthalo Green (yellow Shade) 0.8
Dark Green Phthalo Green (yellow Shade) 0.6
Dark Green Black 3.8
Dark Grey Graphite Gray 5.6
Desert Tan Transparent Shading Gray 8.9
Desert Yellow Yellow Ochre 4.2
Desert Yellow Yellow Ochre 4.3
Duck Egg Blue Titanium White 10.3
Emerald Green Permanent Green Light 3.6
Extra Dark Sea Grey N5 Neutral Gray 5.0
Fire Orange Pyrrole Red 2.7
Flesh Yellow Ochre 5.0
Fluorescent Signal Green Light Green (blue Shade) 10.2
French Blue Primary Cyan 2.8
German Camouflage Red Transparent Brown Iron Oxide 5.8
Gloss Purple Ultramarine Violet 2.7
Gloss Varnish Benzimidazolone Yellow Light 0.0
Gold Diarylide Yellow 5.2
Gold Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide 5.1
Grass Green Terre Verte Hue 7.0
Grass Green Terre Verte Hue 7.4
Grey N6 Neutral Gray 5.6
Gun Metal Raw Umber 2.6
Gunmetal Bone Black 0.9
Insignia Red Primary Magenta 1.7
Insignia Yellow Diarylide Yellow 2.1
Italian Racing Red Cadmium Red Medium 1.7
Ivory Titan Buff 6.8
Khaki Nickel Azo Yellow 7.0
Khaki Drill Raw Sienna 11.5
Leather Raw Sienna 4.7
Lemon Permanent Yellow 2.0
Light Grey N8 Neutral Gray 4.5
Light Olive Sap Green Hue 4.8
Lime Light Green (blue Shade) 13.0
Lime Green Titan Green Pale 5.1
Magenta Medium Magenta 7.2
Matt Olive Drab Green Gold 6.7
Matt Tank Grey Viridian Green Hue 6.0
Mediterranean Blue Cobalt Teal 6.5
Medium Sea Grey Zinc White 4.8
Middle Blue Cobalt Teal 3.4
Midnight Blue Blue Violet 2.9
Midnight Blue Cerulean Blue Deep 2.9
Natural Wood Raw Sienna 5.1
Oak Titan Buff 3.2
Ocean Grey Terre Verte Hue 6.0
Olive Drab Sap Green Hue 6.8
Olive Green Sap Green Hue 8.0
Orange Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold 4.1
Orange Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold 4.1
Pastel Blue Zinc White 4.9
Pastel Green Phosphorescent Green 9.0
Pastel Violet Light Magenta 17.4
Pink Light Magenta 10.3
Primer N4 Neutral Gray 6.1
Primer N4 Neutral Gray 8.6
Purple Prussian Blue Hue 2.0
RAF Blue Smalt Hue 10.5
Red Primary Magenta 0.9
Red Primary Magenta 2.4
Rust Raw Sienna 9.4
Sand Yellow Oxide 3.6
Sand Yellow Oxide 3.6
Satin Varnish Benzimidazolone Yellow Light 0.0
Scarlet Quinacridone Red 0.9
Sea Grey N4 Neutral Gray 5.4
Sea Grey N4 Neutral Gray 5.0
Service Brown Burnt Umber 3.6
Signal Red Pyrrole Red 0.6
Silver N8 Neutral Gray 2.3
Silver N8 Neutral Gray 4.3
Tan Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide 4.5
Tank Grey Viridian Green Hue 5.2
Trainer Yellow Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue 1.5
US Ghost Grey Zinc White 6.6
US Light Green Chromium Oxide Green 5.6
US Tan Raw Sienna 5.5
WWI Blue Manganese Blue Hue 4.9
White Benzimidazolone Yellow Light 0.0
White Benzimidazolone Yellow Light 0.0
White Benzimidazolone Yellow Light 0.0
White Gloss Teal 2.6
White Matt Carbon Black 1.7
Yellow Benzimidazolone Yellow Medium 1.5
Yellow Benzimidazolone Yellow Medium 1.2

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