Paint colour

[Chris KC]

Those Craftmaster colours look pretty good, although I am curious to see their Royal Blue is darker than their Dark Royal Blue!

I have a colour-corrected monitor, but I still wouldn't put too much faith in an online colour chart personally...

I run Craftmaster and I don't have a colour-corrected monitor! It's all done by eye very roughly for the online.

It is perfectly possible for a Royal Blue and Deep Royal Blue to be the wrong way around in reality.

Those two come from historic records rather than colours we've been able to measure, and both are the same colour according to what I've seen. 

I do not think the colours were ever offered in the same model year.

I could be wrong (happy to be proved so), historic colours are a total minefield of misinformation - and that's before you find the factory didn't always get it 100% consistent. Remember at the time most dealers and and refinishers would have either had the paint mixed to match locally or done it themselves and tinted it accordingly to match the vehicle in question.

Hi Adam! 

I'm quite sure you're right, it's hard enough getting a proper match for modern super-consistent paints. 

Let's not forget too that even original paint samples or colour charts have probably 'mellowed' considerably in 80 or 90 years....

I do have a book of original paint swatches from the twenties by the way if anyone is interested, various marques but not Austin I'm afraid.