Magnolia is not a standard!

[Lieutenant Scott]

I used to think Magnolia was an off white colour of paint. Just bought some Dulux and it's PEACH! Got some Leyland Magnolia paint and it's YELLOW! Where are the standards!

[Owain]

some Dulux and it's PEACH! =A0Got some Leyland Magnolia paint and it's YEL= LOW!

Magnolia is supposed to be pinkish-peach.

BS 381C: Colours for identifications, coding and special purposes BS 4800: Selection of colours from BS 5252F to be used within paint.

AFAICS Magnolia is not a standard colour.

Owain

[Geoff Pearson]

specify a Pantone number for magnolia - that will be standard.

[MuddyMike]

08B15 is the BS number for Magnolia, any quality paint with that number should be the same shade.

Mike

[Andy Wade]

The title of BS 4800:2011 is now "Schedule of paint colours for building purposes." Since this only gives CIE colorimetric values you'll also need the colour matching fan, BS 4800F:2011 - a snip at only GBP200...

And don't forget BS 1710:1984 "Specification for identification of pipelines and services."

Interesting that these seem to have escaped the Euro-harmonisation process (so far). Some|many|most [1] trade paint places will mix you RAL colours though.

[1] The Dulux decorator centres will, for sure.

[Owain]

Found it with the colour reference given by Muddymike.

You can print your own fan cards (subject to home printing colour tolerances....) at

[js.b1]

It will be a whitewash...

[js.b1]

Supermarkets do some too, noticed Asda do 5L Magnolia Matt for =A35... silly fools, should label some cans Organic Barley White and charge twice as much for the different label.

[MuddyMike]

Glad to have been of service :-)

Mike

[Lieutenant Scott]

Thanks - looks like Leyland paint is correct then.

Dulux (which is meant to be a good paint?!?) has no code on it.

Dulux:

looks exactly like my wall I painted with Dulux).

Leyland:

wall I painted with Leyland Magnolia looks half way between their magnolia and their County Cream)

I put most of the difference down to the Leyland paint having been stored below zero (not by me!).

But the two webpages show a slightly different Magnolia, and the Dulux tin has no code on it.

[Lieutenant Scott]

ROFL! Organic paint indeed. Incase you get hungry at night, lick the w= all.

[MM]

Dulux and it's PEACH!  Got some Leyland Magnolia paint and it's YELLOW!

Not a trace of pink in mine. Creamy.

MM