Is there any website where I view the catalogue of paint color codes?

Question

There are many color names for car paint.. e.g ferrari red, pearl red, energy red and etc..

Is there any website where I can view the list of all the common paint colors?

Answer 1

You best bet is to head to your local, auto paint supply store and look through the chip books ( books that have paint codes along with chips of what the actual paint looks like ), really good chip books have a circle cut through the paint chip and the page in each different color. This is so you can lay the chip book page over the item or right off the car to see if it matches with that code.

If you have the code itself either from the Vin number or in the glove box, or you can also find it on the label inside the door jam on the driver side door as well. let me know if you have a other questions.

Answer 2

I dont know of anything like this, but I do have some advice. I do digital graphics/signage for a living and can tell you that color differentiation can be affected by the type of screen you are using. Alot of the pictures I create can look very different depending on the computer I am using. This particularly applies to bright colors such as red and yellow that can sometimes look very flat on certain screens. This means that many shades that are very similar can look exactly the same on the screen, You will also get no idea about refraction under light
Also paint is affected by the material you are painting, so paint on plastic can look different to paint on metal.
What I am trying to say is that to get an accurate idea of what the paint looks like under normal conditions, and what it will look like on your car, you will have to get a physical sample

Answer 3

Look around the Eastwood website:
http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=1058&itemType=CATEGORY&iMainCat=688&iSubCat=1058