Thanks! Good luck

I wonder if we could have a brief moritorium on which white is really white? Or best white. Or whitest white. Or any white.

I mean...just go to the paint store, look at the chip samples, take some home and look at them there...then go buy several of the closest color samples and brush them on...look at them in sun and shade...and make a damn selection!

It's what we all have to do. There's no short cuts. There's no magic. Just pick a color.

Stop using up all the bandwidth here...just go and do your homework, since no one here can really help you in your specific situation. None of us know what you are dealing with on your specific site.

Only you can decide what you like in the sun and shade.

Really.

Thank you very much.

I consult https://encycolorpedia.com/ whenever I am looking for something close. For whatever reason, it seems that most Farrow and Ball colors do not have close matches in named colors. Whites are tricky and they are hard to match. Most paint stores will "match" a competitors color as requested, but many of the time it's not dead on when you are talking whites. That is why consumers struggle having White Dove and Simply White mixed in SW bases.

drdeb1234 Your room looks great! I'm attempting the exact same thing... could you tell me what color you used for the trim please?

IMO F&B can never really be color matched it has a lot more pigment and no NA paint can really do a real color match. Why not just do F&B if you love that color. BTW I agree with Virgil if you don’t want to spend the money on F&B go get some samples and test them .

Hi, I was wondering if you ever did the BM match for F&B All White on your exterior and if you were happy with it. I am looking to do exactly that. Thank you very much!

I thought the BM color matches were very accurate. had at least one direct comparison between both and did BM samples which were spot on with the FB color cards (unlike BM paints to BM cards haha). i was doing bright colors though not whites. i would buy a sample at any rate. i ended up buying FBpaint because i was painting bathrooms but whole house would be $$$.

I painted my dining room using a BM color match to Farrow and Ball. Never again. Instead I either buy FB or I purchase an actual BM color that is a close match, knowing full well it isn't what it is - the BM color that I will like and not a sad knock off of FB. The pigments in FB are just so different they can't compare. (For FB white tie, BM linen white is such a close match. There are lots of close match charts online.)

I used a Pratt & Lambert in my kitchen, laundry and mud room. When I had a paint crew come to refresh some rooms they “color matched” the kitchen for the laundry and mud rooms.

Nope, it’s not the same. Just isn’t. It’s fine for the two rooms I redid, but I would invest in the Pratt again if I ever need to repaint the kitchen. I assume the same is true of FB.

Thing the about the encyclopedia website is their data is not good. Their calculations start with RGB values that they snag from wherever. They don't measure the colors to industry standards.

And it just snowballs from there with regard to F&B.

Because F&B notoriously has skewed digital swatches.

For the longest time their collateral (chips) weren't great either. But they switched to a company called CCI for some if not all of their collateral so it is markedly improved - especially the brochures.

There isn't an "official" RGB value for any color. Because RGB values are just instructions that tell devices how much red, green and blue to light up to make a digital representation of a color.

However.... there is such a thing as good/better/best RGB values. F&B website swatch RGB values appears to be marginally good.

So if that's where encyclo is getting RGB values to start with, the results you get there for F&B "matches" is going to be one of the more tragically incorrect results.

Last but not least, we can reduce entire color collections down to a spreadsheet.

There is special software/apps that will show you where collections have "holes" in color space.

Those holes are -often- there for a reason; like their particular set of ingredients (base/colorants) can't produce the colors in the "hole".

If you're a paint company and don't want to compete with the typical larger manufacturers, you'd look at those holes and fill them.

When you do that, it makes it harder to mix a match to your color if you don't have the same ingredients.

Not saying F&B or Joanna Gaines does that.

I'm just saying that's what I would do if I was selling paint.