Ford Colour Swatches online anywhere?

[Deisel Weisel]

I’m looking to compare Radiant Red against Colorado Red. Is there anywhere online I can do that?

[paintman]

There are a lot of factory variant shades of both colours. If you are trying to compare it to a car you would be better taking it into a Motor Factor that does paint & comparing it to their colour swatches.
If its just a comparison, you would again be better looking at swatches in daylight.
You could just type Ford Colorado Red and Ford Radiant Red into google. Lots comes up, incl cars in the colours.
I've just checked my own swatches (Nexa), 4 shades of each, & Radiant is slightly bluer than Colorado although a couple of the chips aren't much different!

Edited by paintman on Thursday 31st January 21:51

[Deisel Weisel]

Thanks for the input, paintman.

I’m just trying to gain an appreciation of the difference, in respect of Ford Pumas. Earlier models were Radiant (97-00) and later Colorado (00-02). I’ve been told neither models were clear-coated, but single-stage paint, so any photos of the two are going to be subject to unknown degrees of fade, as well as all the other variables of cameras/locations/lighting. That’s how I thought of swatches, but there’s nowhere online?

[markmullen]

The difficulty is that unless you're viewing them on a properly calibrated monitor (most people aren't, unless they're involved in photography or design) there could be massive variations on an online swatch between one computer and another, and even between two browsers on one computer.

[TallPaul]

markmullen said:

The difficulty is that unless you're viewing them on a properly calibrated monitor (most people aren't, unless they're involved in photography or design) there could be massive variations on an online swatch between one computer and another, and even between two browsers on one computer.

Absolutely. You'll struggle to even get a vague representation on a screen. Go to a paint factors and physically see the swatches, even then for a true comparison you'll need to do some spray-out cards to see 100%. What are you trying to find out, you say you're "trying to gain an appreciation of the difference" but if you already know they're not the same colour, you'd be better off looking online for some brochures with pictures of the cars when they were new- that'll give you as much indication as online swatches.

[KevF]

Mate,

Go here, select year and have a look.

http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/chipdisplay.cgi?year=2...

Hope this helps.

Kev