Here's a fun fact to ruin your day: Your car isn't painted with "Toyota paint" or "Ford paint." If you've ever gone into a body shop after a parking-lot kerfuffle and demanded the shop use "genuine ...

Paint jail. It's a known menace to our craft, one that has seen the demise of many a project. It's the car crafting version of a roach motel-cars go in but they don't come out. It usually goes like ...

For as long as body shops and restorers have been painting automobiles, the challenge has been getting a good color match, both as a whole vehicle repaint and in repair work. You've seen them—the '65 ...

If you’ve ever wondered how car designers forecast color trends and develop exterior paint color palettes, Cadillac designer ...

Paint pros share their best tips and advice for color-matching paint the proper way. Imagine you find a vintage decor item in the most ravishing shade of red you’ve ever laid eyes on. You want to ...

The wide world of automotive paint nerd-dom is an easy hole to fall into. Whether you’re obsessed with ultra-niche one-of-one hues or you’re just an admirer of bright, shiny things, you can appreciate ...

When you painted your home’s walls years ago, they looked amazing. The color was absolutely perfect, but now its faded. The problem: You have no idea what color you purchased for the walls all those ...