Colors
Every color these seven brands make. All 18,635 of them.
A full deck per manufacturer: search by name or code, filter by family, sort by lightness or hue, and tap any color to see the closest equivalent in the other six brands. That last part is the one people actually need — somebody painted the house before you and all you have is a color name.
- 18,635
- colors in total
- 7
- complete decks
- ΔE2000
- for the cross-brand match
No color on this page is the real color.
Screen colors are approximations. Monitors vary, and paint changes with light, sheen and the surface under it. Always confirm with a physical sample before you buy.
These hex values are third-party approximations of physical paint. Nobody put a spectrophotometer on these cans to build this page — they are the numbers the manufacturers publish, or numbers somebody transcribed from their fan decks, converted to sRGB. That conversion loses information before it ever reaches your screen.
Then your screen adds its own error on top. A phone in the sun, a calibrated monitor and a laptop in battery-saver mode show three different colors from the same hex code. And real paint shifts again with sheen, with the light in the room, and with whatever is underneath it.
The only reliable way to choose a color is a physical sample: a large chip, or better, a drawdown — real paint rolled onto card stock, two coats, taped to your wall and looked at across a whole day. Juan brings samples when he comes out to write the estimate. Do not pick a color off a phone.
Every brand has a Swiss Coffee. They are all different colors.
Every brand has a Swiss Coffee, and they are all different colors. Dunn-Edwards DEW341 is the warm creamy one most of Southern California means. Benjamin Moore OC-45 is a shade cleaner. Behr 12 is different again. And Kelly-Moore 23, which was the California standard for decades, went away with the company in 2024. Ask four people here for Swiss Coffee and you will get four colors. Tell us the brand along with the name and we will get it right the first time.
Search “Swiss Coffee” in any of the seven decks below and compare the values yourself. That is exactly what this page is for.
The decks
Seven brands, seven complete decks.
Ordered by how much we trust the data, not by size. The color data is not equally reliable across all seven, and saying so matters more than looking tidy.
Benjamin Moore
4,118colors
High confidenceHigh confidence. These values come from Benjamin Moore’s own website colour data rather than a third-party transcription — the records still carry benjaminmoore.com product URLs and sample SKUs. Spot-checks against published colours matched.
Open the Benjamin Moore deck
Sherwin-Williams
1,526colors
High confidenceHigh confidence. Spot-checked against Sherwin-Williams’ own published values and matched. This is the smallest deck on the page, and that is real — Sherwin-Williams publishes fewer colours than Behr does, not fewer than we found.
Open the Sherwin-Williams deck- Dunn-Edwards Corporation
Dunn-Edwards
1,696colors
High confidenceHigh confidence. Spot-checked against Dunn-Edwards’ own published values and matched. This is the deck most Southern California homeowners have actually stood in front of, so it is the one we lean on when somebody describes a colour from memory.
Open the Dunn-Edwards deck 
Pittsburgh Paints
2,088colors
High confidenceHigh confidence. Spot-checked against the published values and matched. The codes still read PPG because that is what is printed on the cans and the fan decks — the US house-paint business became The Pittsburgh Paints Company in December 2024, and the colour numbers did not change with the name.
Open the Pittsburgh Paints deck
Behr
4,658colors
Close, but offClose, but measurably off. Behr’s hex values in this data land near the published ones without landing on them — its Swiss Coffee 12 renders about 6 points out of 255 per channel away from the value Behr publishes. That is a small error you can still see on a large wall. Good enough to browse and narrow down. Not good enough to decide on.
Open the Behr deck- Valspar
Valspar
1,764colors
Not spot-checkedNot spot-checked. Same third-party source as most of the decks here, but we found nothing published by Valspar to check it against, and Juan does not hold an account with the brand. So it gets no claim of accuracy from us — we are not going to say about Valspar what we can say about Benjamin Moore.
Open the Valspar deck - Vista Paint Corporation
Vista Paint
2,785colors
UnverifiedUnverified. Vista Paint is a regional Southern California brand and there is no second published source to check this data against — which means nothing in this deck has been confirmed by anybody, including us. The names and codes are useful at the counter. Treat every hex value on this page as a rough starting point and nothing more.
Open the Vista Paint deck
Tool
Have a color and no idea whose it is?
The color matcher runs the other direction: you hand it a color — from a photo, a picker, or a hex code — and it tells you the closest color in all seven brands at once, out of all 18,635. It is the one to use when you are holding a throw pillow, an old can lid, or a photo of a wall you liked.
- Search by name or codeType “Swiss Coffee” or “DEW341” and the whole deck narrows as you type.
- Filter by familyWhites, neutrals, grays, greens, blues — fourteen families, worked out in CIELAB rather than from the name.
- Find the equivalentTap a color and see the closest match in each of the other six brands, with its ΔE.
Where the numbers come from
Sources, and what we do not know.
The Benjamin Moore data comes from Benjamin Moore’s own website color data. The other six decks come from colornerd, a third-party open-source dataset. We spot-checked four of the seven brands against the manufacturer’s published values and they matched. One did not quite match, and two we could not check at all.
Every deck carries its own confidence note, and they say different things on purpose. If you ever see all seven described as equally reliable somewhere, nobody checked.
- Benjamin Moore4,118Benjamin Moore’s own colour data, via the public benjamin-moore-css dataset.
- Sherwin-Williams1,526colornerd 2.4.11, a third-party open-source colour dataset.
- Dunn-Edwards1,696colornerd 2.4.11, a third-party open-source colour dataset.
- Pittsburgh Paints2,088colornerd 2.4.11, a third-party open-source colour dataset.
- Behr4,658colornerd 2.4.11, a third-party open-source colour dataset.
- Valspar1,764colornerd 2.4.11, a third-party open-source colour dataset.
- Vista Paint2,785colornerd 2.4.11, a third-party open-source colour dataset.
Names and codes
Colour names, codes and fan-deck numbers are the trademarks of their manufacturers and are used here only to identify their products. AJ Paint is an independent painting contractor — not a manufacturer, and not an authorized representative of any of these brands.
Screen colors are approximations. Monitors vary, and paint changes with light, sheen and the surface under it. Always confirm with a physical sample before you buy.
Kelly-Moore is not here
Kelly-Moore ceased operations on January 18, 2024, so there is no deck to publish. We still match its colors: bring a chip or a lid and we will pull that color in Dunn-Edwards, Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore.
Read about the brandsWhen you are down to two or three, call Juan.
He brings the physical samples, puts them on your wall, and you look at them in your own light before anybody commits to twenty gallons.