is there a ^way^ to read the F&B colour chart?

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i get each page is more or less the same colour greens / blues / reds etc. but is there any correlation in the colours going across re depth or tone or somesuch?

it appears i'm colour blind in the same way as i am tone deaf. i read and read about blue tints and green hints but i just can't see them and now i've accidentally painted my kitchen yellow, which was quite literally the last colour i wanted it to be

Laughing as I thought from your title this was going to be a satiric thread about reading the names of F and B paints out loud, rather like the shipping news or the football results. 'Elephant's Breath - nil, Wimborne White - one; Tallow - falling slowly.' Etc etc.

No idea about your actual question, sorry.

mouses back - good with fog patches; new white - anticyclonic

more fun than pissing 80 away on bloody yellow

Yes, there is - and I only discovered this very recently - think that each vertical column is toning colours? So if you pick any two from a vertical line, they should work together.

Their shops have really good people in them who can point you in the right direction too. Vertical lines do work, but you do not have to be a slave to it.

Don't feel bad, I once painted half the living room purple, telling myself the whole time 'it'll probably be grey when it dries'. It wasn't.

I have no instinct with this stuff either. Go into a chichi paint shop with samples of all the other stuff in the room - tiles, curtains, work surfaces - or Internet links/ phone pics where you have no samples. Then chat about ideas and they will help

Our local posh paint shop has the grumpiest most unhelpful staff. :(

The problem is I bought a random selection of colours because they had 75% off. Clearly they had the least popular colours to flog off cheap. Now I have to figure out if any of them work together.

I'm warming to the yellow (house white) and wondering if a bluey gray (Parma gray) will work with it or look all a bit 80s

Go on their website. They put colours together that flow and link. It really helped me for ideas.

Like this for example.

Yes, the colours match vertically. Each vertical strip is a family of colours that will go together. I know this as I paid for an F&B consultation.

That sounds massively up myself, but I'm not, promise! Just saying as evidence as to how I'm sure about this!

Thanks vino. So are there horizontal relationships too or just the horizontal ones?