What colour is this

Started by Ken, Nov 02, 2023, 05:15 PM

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Ken

Seen at the Exmoor trim factory tour, what colour is it please ?

gylo

i think it classed as light green from the factory, but gained other names later on ie series 3 etc

Exile

Yes Light Green.

Pastel Green on SIII's.

(Incorrectly called Sage Green on early Series Ones).

Ken

Thanks, my recollection is that the car was less green, more a green grey than the photo makes it look. I looked at  paintman colours and the sample they show is a more chromatic green than the photo I posted so a photo that makes it look more green and paintman greener again. However it is not possible to judge colour on a computer screen.
Light green seems the most likely unless it's a non standard colour. I've asked paintman for a colour chip but so far no reply.Im sure they're good but they alarm me a little with their comments that they showed their colour to a restorer who said it looked right. It used to be my business, head of colour and material design for Jaguar and chief designer for Europe for a Japanese company. It made me a bit picky over colour accuracy. They're on the right track with using colour hidden from light as a reference but it's what you do with it after that.
It took an art degree and 8 years to get to a high standard and you absolutely have to have a datum light source.