How do places like Home Depot or Lowe’s color match paint colors from a paint chip sanple?

Question

I just got this done today and the paint is identical to the color I’m repainting from previous tenants. How does this witchcraft work???

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

Not a retail store, but the company I work for can colour match using a piece of hardware installed into a computer, it will scan the file and pulls up the pms code or other depending on the job we are doing.