Whatever fancy name you call the color and however much you charge, this color can be duplicated.
Big Designer Paint, Inc. might pay a naming company to produce a splendorous name like Aegean Sea MistWind for a certain color. Coupled with other marketing efforts, this makes huge prices charged for the paint appear more plausible.
Yet this color still has a corollary in the real world somewhere. And this corollary can be duplicated in cheaper paint form.
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This is not a perfect process by any means.- Colors on Screen vs. Real-Life Colors: This color approximation process is the similar to the caveat that the paint companies issue about their own palettes: colors on the screen may appear differently from the colors on the chips or paint on the wall. As Ralph Lauren Paint says, "On-screen swatches are photo representations and do not reflect color with 100% accuracy..." But when you see a color on-screen and want to get in its general range, this method will help.
- Paint Colors vs. The Paint Itself: Copying a designer paint color does not mean copying the paint itself. Lift a can of Benjamin Moore Aura in one hand and a can of your local dollar store's finest in the other hand, and you'll immediately feel the difference. Premium house paint is heavy and full-bodied. Simply put, you're getting sturdier and longer-lasting coverage with better paint. But that doesn't mean you need to spend $80 a gallon for good paint. Behr Premium Plus is excellent interior paint at a budget price.
