Mixing color tips

Tocean said:

I'd like to add to keep in mind your light can make a difference when color matching, the 3 to keep in mind are the older bulbs put off a yellow hue, the newer fluorescent lights have a blue hue, then you have sunlight.

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It does to a point! If your matching the colour of a reference then both colours will be tinted the same, where quality lighting helps is that you can actually see more colours! Especially in the violets/reds.

Tocean said:

I'd like to add to keep in mind your light can make a difference when color matching, the 3 to keep in mind are the older bulbs put off a yellow hue, the newer fluorescent lights have a blue hue, then you have sunlight.

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I do a lot of hard surface work, Lighting can be a huge difference. In surprising ways. White that appears to have achieved full coverage in strong light can actually show more transparency in dim light or a light that is weak in part of the spectrum since you dont get full refraction from it.

Same phenomena can actually make two colors appear to match in one light but not match in another.
So if its really important I'll check in at least a couple of lighting situations.

Other odd refractions as well
Eg; rust oleum white next to arctic white gelcoat appear to match nearly perfect in sunlight. But under HPS shoplight which is high in blue The rustoleum appears grey