Festool colour codes in Eurpoe

[shed9]

Has anyone matched the Festool colour codes in the UK with a paint supplier?

I got a pot of RAL 5004 and Festool black it ain't. Wondered if anyone had any luck?

 

[jonny round boy]

Has anyone matched the Festool colour codes in the UK with a paint supplier?

I got a pot of RAL 5004 and Festool black it ain't. Wondered if anyone had any luck?

Just take something in & get them to scan it.

 

[AlexThePalex]

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[shed9]

Just take something in & get them to scan it.

Tried that, scanners won’t detect the plastic, the green was hopeless and the black produced a 96% match which turned out to be purple.

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I used that guide to get the RAL 5004, close match but not the same colour.

 

[AlexThePalex]

The material is also important. Paint will have a slight colour variation from plastic, no matter what you try, it's how the light reflects from the material. And Festool plastic is not smooth either, it has a texture. This all influences the resulting perception.

I got these RAL numbers straight from the Tanos website. Everything Festool & Tanos produce has a colour from the RAL system. German mentality. If in your experience RAL 5004 doesn't match, please let us know which RAL colour does.

 

[jonny round boy]

I used that guide to get the RAL 5004, close match but not the same colour.

That's because it's too dark to match accurately. Blacks and whites are almost impossible to match, because there's so little difference between noticeably different shades. For example, if you were to buy 4 'gloss white' kitchen doors from 4 different manufacturers & put them together, they would all look different shades. Blacks are the same in the other extreme.

Also, as Alex pointed out, texture often has more to do with the perception of colour than the colour itself.

 

[shed9]

The material is also important. Paint will have a slight colour variation from plastic, no matter what you try, it's how the light reflects from the material. And Festool plastic is not smooth either, it has a texture. This all influences the resulting perception.

Fair point.

I got these RAL numbers straight from the Tanos website. Everything Festool & Tanos produce has a colour from the RAL system. German mentality. If in your experience RAL 5004 doesn't match, please let us know which RAL colour does.

I’ve not found anything that’s a closer match so this may be a case of material like you mentioned above.

That's because it's too dark to match accurately. Blacks and whites are almost impossible to match, because there's so little difference between noticeably different shades. For example, if you were to buy 4 'gloss white' kitchen doors from 4 different manufacturers & put them together, they would all look different shades. Blacks are the same in the other extreme.

I’d expect RAL to be a very close match though.

Also, as Alex pointed out, texture often has more to do with the perception of colour than the colour itself.

I think you both are probably right on this.

For info the RAL 5004 I'm using looks more like Cadbury purple. I wonder if this has been mixed wrong.

 

[AlexThePalex]

For info the RAL 5004 I'm using looks more like Cadbury purple. I wonder if this has been mixed wrong.

I guess so. Did a quick google image search to illustrate how the two colours compare. 5004 is nowhere near purple. Maybe the paint wasn't thoroughly stirred.

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