I have a known colour in a HEX format. What is it called in the Resene or Duluxcolour scheme.

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jimbob79

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#207620 5-Jan-2017 15:24

I have a colour in a HEX format. How do get what it's called in the Resene or Dulux pallet?

Hex: #f1f1f1
RGB: 241, 241, 241

I got the mobile app but it does not give me an option to set the know HEX colours.

jimbob79

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#1698897 5-Jan-2017 15:30

I think I found the close match in Dulux paint scheme.

http://m.dulux.co.nz/colour/set/Whites/326902/okarito

I wonder what the equivalent is the Resene paint scheme.

nzkc

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#1698900 5-Jan-2017 15:33

I'd try and find the closest Pantone colour and take that to Resene and ask them to match that. This gave me the Pantone colour for your hex value: http://rgb.to/hex/f1f1f1

Having said all that... what you see on your screen and what a paint colour on a surface (house/fence/canvas etc) look like will likely different significantly. Best bet is to go in and get a colour swatch to match with.

richms

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#1698913 5-Jan-2017 15:42

There is a complete lack of decent greys on the colour charts when I was looking, they are all slightly blue or brown. I had to end up getting them to get the big book out and have a look thru for one that was just white with a bit of black in it. Was this close to taking my neutral grey card in and asking them to match to it since there was _nothing_ on the big racks of little colour samples that matched.

So ask them to get out the big expensive book from behind the counter and have a look thru it. There is no direct way to make a paint colour from a RGB colour since they are totally different ways of working, but a grey should be quite easy to pick from the column of greys in the book.

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#1698915 5-Jan-2017 15:44

http://www.resene.co.nz/swatches/search.php?type=result&split=&close=10&chart=*&r=241&g=241&b=241

http://www.dulux.co.nz/media/1038048/dcnz_rgb_alphabetical.pdf

In Resene there is no exact match.. but maybe Resene Half Black White is the closest

In Dulux there us no exact match but Okarito is 241/242/241 so close