Very cool!

I use that all the time and often share it on design dilemma posts. I love it. It's like having this great library of paint chips without schlepping to every store in town.

Wow - that's cool!

I have to laugh at this one. I used both of these in CT, along with Pointing and White Tie. I basically took the first panel of the FnB color card and went "wild." Drove my painter crazy over the years keeping tracking of what was where; hence the Google Docs spreadsheet.

I think this image best sums up my decorating style. LOL

I see the difference and can imagine that they would look different in different rooms but the side by side is funny.

I cannot make it pull up Sherwin Williams Off White (SW1095). And I don’t see a tutorial.

I LOVE this, and I've never seen it before, thank you!

I'm currently debating paint colors and this will be very useful.

@bbstx I just checked the SW website and that color is not there. I do see the color showing up on other sites. Perhaps it has been recently renamed or discontinued.

Wow, that's a very useful tool. When I painted a room gray once, I was trying to ferret out undertones. The only way I could see them was to place two gray shades beside each other. Instantly one looked green and the other looked purple! I can see how useful this tool would be!

Bookmarked that!

@deegw, it is like Sherwin Williams’ family member that isn’t spoken of. It is a color I’ve been using for the last 10 years, most recently last year. It’s there; they just keep it hidden. I was put on to it by the cabinet makers who did the cabinets when we built. It was what they recommended for ”white” cabinets.

ETA: why do I get orphaned quotation marks? Drives me nuts!

That's very cool

What a great site! Thanks so much for posting the link.

Thank you for sharing that, Salvona; so useful. I’m bookmarking it, too. And lol, Mtn, at least half my house is School House White, Skimming Stone and Shaded White with Wimborne White trim.

Thank you, salonva! Another useful tool which is great. I've always used EasyRGB. This will be wonderful to have as well.

Keep in mind that the appearance of a given color from a given source will be different from one screen to another. It varies by screen characteristics and by the video settings of the screen itself. Paint samples remain the best way to get the best source to compare from and as likely everyone knows, the results from even those and the tinting process of the actual paint itself will produce results with some variation.

I dunno. I have a cabinet base in BM Cloud White that abuts a short length of baseboard in Kelly Moore (RIP) Swiss Coffee. In reality, they look something like this, Cloud White on left, Swiss Coffee on right. ETA: This is a terrible representation of the white on the right. It looks gray here. It is not.

Hextoral says:

Hextoral's Cloud White is a more accurate representation of the color, but Swiss Coffee is in reality a bright white, nothing like shown here.

I know you have to see and sample paint things for real, but this would have led me in a different direction.

It's a handy tool for beginning a weeding out process, something I like to do before I start picking up paint chips. This is just an example where it's off.

Does the KM have a pink undertone in real life? Because I am seeing one in hextoral version.

Dee, thanks. I deleted my reference to waving hands in the air. haha

The KM doesn't have a pink undertone. It appears to be a clean yet soft white. Kelly Moore just went under and closed all their stores. All the trim in my house is KM Swiss Coffee. I need to replace some baseboards in the near future so need to find something that's a close match, probably BM. Of course BM will no doubt have this in their system and find an easy match, esp with thousands of people in my area with basically the same issue, i.e., Swiss Coffee trim throughout their houses.

Glad this was so well received. I had never come across it so it was entirely new to me. I remember there WAS a site I loved- which found good equivalents between paint brands. I think it's still around, but something changed and it's not the useful tool I used to find it to be.

And, of course, I agree that our screens are all different and there's nothing like seeing the actual sample or paint chip but this is a very decent starting point to compare and consider.

Mtn, I love your example. As I often say , when I like something, I am very consistent.

Interesting, and timely! I've had Samplize peel and stick samples all over this office since Fall. It's about time I made a choice. A friend who is also a successful realtor was here one day and studying one of them, said this black is certainly a bold color. It wasn't black, it was Hale Navy that became black in afternoon light in this room.

Totally could not think of this site and thankfully the search function worked so here I am! HEXTORAL.

There are the colors I am considering for my bathroom in Cathedral City:

The current feature wall/walls is a sort of maroon, and while I have been okay with it up until now, I have decided that I would like it better if it were a dark purplish blue.

I'm leaning toward the Benjamin Moore color, but I will have to get samples of both, and I like the rendering of the SW color. I will say that I painted my dining room in L.A. using a Sherwin Williams color that I picked from their website without ever seeing a physical sample (the store in Culver City did not have a paint chip for it), and I am very happy with the result. I would not have done this with a light color.