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

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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???

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Basically, computers. There is a computer scanner that scans in the object you are trying to duplicate. That scanner feeds into the computer and the computer calculates the exact color recipe that has to be made. Then the tech goes and gets the colors and measures them into the right volumes and it gets mixed together, and poof. Matched colors.

Not all colors can be matched exactly though. Sometimes the colors and amounts needed to match really aren’t available in small batches like 1 gallon.

Gotta remember, all colors are essentially made of the basic colors.

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