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Paint equivalents and the converter
What a match score means, why "exact" is not always exact, and what the public converter is for.
What an equivalent is
An equivalent is a cross-brand "use this instead": a paint from another range that gets you close enough to the one a scheme calls for. It is how you paint a Citadel scheme out of Vallejo pots without guessing in the shop.
Exact, close, similar
Most equivalents are computed by measuring the distance between two colours and grading it: exact for a very small difference, close for a small one, similar for a noticeable one.
The grade describes the colour and nothing else. Two paints can be an exact colour match and behave completely differently on the model — coverage, finish and how they thin are not measured, and a contrast paint will never act like a layer paint however well the swatches agree.
Painter-verified matches
Some equivalents were checked by a person rather than computed. Those are labelled painter-verified, and they are the ones to trust when the two disagree.
They deliberately do not carry an exact/close/similar grade: those words describe a measurement, and a verified match is a judgement about how the paint actually behaves.
The public converter
The paint converter is a public page — no account needed — with one page per paint and a chart per pair of brands. It reads the same equivalents the app does.
You can tick paints into a list while you browse it and hand that list over to your collection when you are ready. Paints you created yourself stay on the list and can be copied, but cannot travel across, because only catalogue paints exist on both sides.
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