Ever go shopping for clothes & realize that sizing is completely inconsistent between stores? Well, a similar system of organized chaos exists when it comes to naming paint colours.
Colour names are chosen by the paint manufacturers - not based on a standardized system.
It is all too easy to accidentally buy the same paint colour twice (because it is given a different name) or replace a favourite colour with the wrong one (because a different brand gives the same name to different pigments.)
You may not even be aware that you own two paints of the same colour!
In this video I explain the problems with this naming system as well as how to look beyond the name & find out exactly what’s in the paint you buy!