Deep red
Burgundy
A dark wine red with controlled violet depth for fabric, flowers, leather, and shadows.
See ratio & adjustments →PAINT COLOR RECIPES · 40 CURATED TARGETS
40 practical paint color mixing recipes
Choose a color to see its target swatch, HEX code, starting paint ratio, adjustment map, and a direct handoff to Mixora. Every formula is an editorial starting point—not a claim that different paint brands dry identically.
PAINT RECIPE FAMILY
Reds, violets & skin tones
13 recipesFlesh and portrait
Warm Light Skin Tone
A flexible warm light midtone intended as a portrait starting point, not a universal skin color.
See ratio & adjustments →Flesh and portrait
Cool Light Skin Tone
A muted rosy midtone for cool portrait passages and indirect light.
See ratio & adjustments →Muted red
Dusty Rose
A softened rose pink for florals, textiles, interiors, and gentle portrait transitions.
See ratio & adjustments →Warm red
Coral
A lively pink-orange balanced for florals, graphics, marine subjects, and warm highlights.
See ratio & adjustments →Warm pink
Salmon
A softened orange-pink for skin accents, florals, food, and warm decorative palettes.
See ratio & adjustments →Light violet
Lavender
A cool, subdued violet for flowers, distant planes, interiors, and soft shadow color.
See ratio & adjustments →Muted violet
Plum
A dark red-violet with earthy restraint for fruit, fabric, florals, and dramatic shadows.
See ratio & adjustments →Deep violet
Aubergine
A near-black eggplant violet that keeps a subtle red-purple identity in the light.
See ratio & adjustments →Red earth
Rust
A dark iron-oxide red-orange for weathering, brick, leather, soil, and autumn subjects.
See ratio & adjustments →Light red
Blush Pink
A very light, warm neutral pink for subtle florals, portraits, interiors, and porcelain.
See ratio & adjustments →Deep red
Maroon
A dark, brown-led red for leather, cloth, wood accents, architecture, and warm chromatic shadows.
See ratio & adjustments →Clear violet
Violet
A clear middle violet for flowers, fabric, reflected light, fantasy subjects, and controlled complementary mixing.
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Yellows, oranges & earths
4 recipesWarm earth
Terracotta
A sun-warmed red-orange earth for pottery, architecture, leather, and natural skin accents.
See ratio & adjustments →Earth yellow
Mustard Yellow
A deep, muted yellow for vintage palettes, fabric, foliage, and food illustration.
See ratio & adjustments →Warm orange
Burnt Orange
A dark, earthy orange for autumn foliage, rusted surfaces, ceramics, and warm accents.
See ratio & adjustments →Earth yellow
Yellow Ochre
A practical approximation of classic ochre using a basic palette when a single-pigment earth yellow is unavailable.
See ratio & adjustments →PAINT RECIPE FAMILY
Greens & blue-greens
8 recipesMuted green
Sage Green
A quiet gray-green suited to foliage, interiors, uniforms, and understated natural palettes.
See ratio & adjustments →Muted green
Olive Green
A yellow-led natural green for foliage, military subjects, landscapes, and aged surfaces.
See ratio & adjustments →Blue green
Teal
A medium dark blue-green balanced between marine blue and green.
See ratio & adjustments →Blue green
Turquoise
A bright, light blue-green for water, jewelry, decorative accents, and tropical palettes.
See ratio & adjustments →Deep green
Forest Green
A dark, restrained green for dense foliage, uniforms, landscapes, and natural shadows.
See ratio & adjustments →Light green
Mint Green
A light, fresh blue-green for decorative work, highlights, ceramics, and stylized foliage.
See ratio & adjustments →Blue green
Petrol Blue
A dark, muted cyan-blue for interiors, vehicles, fashion, water, and graphic palettes.
See ratio & adjustments →Clear green
Emerald Green
A saturated, cool jewel green for botanical accents, glass, fabric, signage, and high-chroma focal notes.
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Blues
4 recipesDeep blue
Navy Blue
A restrained near-black blue for fabric, shadows, graphic accents, and night scenes.
See ratio & adjustments →Light blue
Cerulean Sky
A clear daylight blue suitable for open sky, water, painted signage, and cool highlights.
See ratio & adjustments →Muted blue
Slate Blue
A gray blue for stone, distant landscape, metal, textiles, and cool architectural color.
See ratio & adjustments →Clear blue
Royal Blue
A strong middle blue with a restrained violet bias for fabric, heraldry, graphics, flowers, and painted accents.
See ratio & adjustments →PAINT RECIPE FAMILY
Neutrals, darks & warm lights
11 recipesNeutral
Warm Gray
A useful brown-violet gray for stone, interiors, portrait grounds, and soft shadows.
See ratio & adjustments →Neutral
Cool Gray
A restrained blue-gray for metal, sky, architecture, cool shadows, and interface illustration.
See ratio & adjustments →Chromatic dark
Charcoal
A deep neutral with more life than tube black for shadows, line work, stone, and metal.
See ratio & adjustments →Warm light
Cream
A gentle warm off-white for highlights, interiors, paper, ceramics, and vintage surfaces.
See ratio & adjustments →Warm light
Ivory
A low-chroma warm white for bone, stone, fabric, paper, and subtle highlight variation.
See ratio & adjustments →Brown
Sepia Brown
A transparent-looking warm dark brown for drawing effects, glazing, wood, leather, and aged imagery.
See ratio & adjustments →Chromatic dark
Chromatic Black
A near-black mixed without tube black, designed to retain adjustable warm or cool undertones.
See ratio & adjustments →Earth neutral
Khaki
A subdued yellow-brown neutral for fabric, uniforms, dry grass, interiors, and weathering.
See ratio & adjustments →Warm neutral
Beige
A light, quiet sand neutral for walls, stone, fabric, grounds, and warm atmospheric passages.
See ratio & adjustments →Warm neutral
Taupe
A medium gray-brown with a slight violet cast for interiors, stone, fur, fabric, and subdued shadows.
See ratio & adjustments →Warm light
Peach
A light orange-pink for fruit, florals, illustration, warm plaster, and selected portrait passages.
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