Session ready to begin

Find the colour
between seeing and mixing.

Sample a reference, calibrate your room light, set your paint under the camera, and let small adjustments do the work.

01 / Reference

Choose a colour to follow

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Bring a reference to the table

Choose a painting detail or photograph. A tap samples a small group of similar pixels — never a single pixel.

JPG, PNG or WEBP

Target colour

#CA7C5BRGB 202, 124, 91

No reference sample yet.

Sampling note. Avoid bright highlights and very deep shadows. Tap a reasonably even painted area; the app will select 2–8 nearby similar pixels and use their dominant averaged colour.

02 / Live sample

Look at your mixture

Browser camera

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Your live sample will appear here Place the central box over your mixed paint

Camera paused

Result colour (live)

#A6684FRGB 166, 104, 79

Neutral-grey room-light calibration

Place a neutral grey card so it fills the central box under your normal painting light, then calibrate.

Not calibrated

Current match

0% close

Start the camera and place your mixed paint in the centre sample box.

03 / Your palette

What’s on your palette?

Paint brand

04 / Starting recipe

A place to start mixing

Ratios are an offline mathematical starting point. Real pigments vary by opacity, tinting strength, binder, surface and lighting, so use the live camera match to finish the mixture.

05 / Feedback

Help improve Live Colour Mixing

Your comments can help me refine the instrument for painters. The form is sent directly through this website’s own PHP mail handler; no third-party form is used.