Find matching acrylic paints for any HEX color
Details
- External ID
- 45800009
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Find matching acrylic paints for any HEX color
- Website domain
- acrylicmatch.com
- Launched
- Nov. 3, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 56
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8438864628820961
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- graphic design assets and utilities
- Vertical
- Retail & commerce
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- find matching acrylic paints for hex colors
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a straightforward static web utility that converts HEX colors to Lab/RGB space and calculates Delta E Euclidean distance against a curated dataset of paint colors.
Discussion
19 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Army Painter paint range, Citadel paints, Vallejo paints, Ph Martin watercolor dyes, IONIC paints
Concerns raised: RGB to paint color matching is fundamentally impossible, Metamerism and color perception affected by surrounding colors, Paint appearance varies by lighting conditions and room context, Craft store vs artist grade paints differ in pigment quality and lightfastness, Color depends on undercoat, number of coats, gloss level, and light source
Feature requests: Add Army Painter and Citadel paint ranges, Add artist grade/professional paint brands beyond craft store paints, Document methodology for how colors were obtained and accuracy level, Integrate affiliate links for Amazon to monetize
Competitors
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Attention rank: #18 of 134 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
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