Paint & colour standards.

American architectural paint brand — a staple of residential and commercial interior work, known for its Regal Select line and extensive HC / OC historical and off-white series.

North America’s largest paint manufacturer. Their SW-prefixed palette covers practically every interior and exterior context; the Color of the Year announcement drives trend cycles each January.

US architectural paint sold exclusively through The Home Depot. Mid-market priced and often specified in builder-grade residential work.

US architectural paint brand owned by Sherwin-Williams; sold through Lowe’s and Ace Hardware. Known for its wide consumer-oriented color library.

Pittsburgh-based global coatings manufacturer. PPG Paints covers architectural, automotive, and industrial segments; the architectural line uses a PPG-prefixed code system.

AkzoNobel’s flagship architectural paint, sold widely across the UK, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Popular for its Weathershield range and its annual Colour of the Year programme.

German industrial colour standard, published by RAL gGmbH. 213 specimen colours used across construction, signage, transport, and manufacturing worldwide. One of the most widely used colour reference standards in Europe.

Japanese alcohol-based marker system by Too Corporation. 358 numbered codes across Sketch and Ciao lines — the professional standard for illustration, manga, and concept art. Codes use a hue-family letter (R, YR, Y, YG, G, BG, B, V, RV, E, C, N) plus brightness and saturation digits.

Sanford’s flagship wax-based colored pencil line. 150 open-stock colors with the canonical PC-### coding used by illustrators, coloring-book artists, and botanical illustrators for decades. Highly blendable, lightfast core.