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Estimates pigment mixing from screen colors. Actual paint depends on its pigments, binder and concentration.
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#2156A550.0%2#F3D34950.0%Find a recipe for a target
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The same ingredients and amounts, mixed four ways.
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Each row blends two ingredients. Select a proportion to use it in your recipe.
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- Add between two and six colors and set their amounts in parts. The recipe normalizes those amounts into percentages.
- Compare approximate pigment mixing, sRGB screen blending, linear-light mixing, and perceptual OKLab blending.
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Equal red and blue produce #800080 in sRGB screen mode and #BC00BC in linear-light mode. Pigment mode uses a different model; it is an estimate, not a formula for a particular paint brand.