MASSTONE
Give Masstone the color you're after and it tells you which tubes to reach for, and how much of each — from the paints you already own.
Target
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psst — tap the recipe to mix another
iPhone · iPad · Mac · Android
What you get
The mix comes out in whole parts you can actually measure with a knife — 8 Cerulean, 3 Ultramarine, 1 Alizarin.
Mixing instructions that show what the pile should look like at every stage, so you know if you're on track.
Set the tubes you own and recipes come only from those. Star your go-to paints and the search leans toward them.
Sometimes a two-paint mix beats a fussier three-paint one. You get the options and pick the one you like.
A heads-up when a strong tinter is about to run away with the mix, before it does.
Tinting strength, color index, the masstone-to-tint ladder, and what to substitute if you don't have it.
The one rule
Screen color is additive; paint is subtractive. Blend blue and yellow as pixels and you get grey. Masstone never averages RGB — every mix runs through spectral reflectance curves, so blue and yellow make green, the way they do on your palette.
green, not grey
In the app
How it works
Point it at a reference photograph and tap the color you want — or skip the photo and pick one off a wheel, or type a hex value. Masstone searches the paints in your box for the mix that lands closest, and hands you the recipe.
Pin colors to compare them side by side. Painting in acrylic? It shows both the dry color, which is what has to match, and the wet color, which is what should be on your palette.
Lighting, camera white balance and your own brand of paint all change the outcome. What matters is which pigments to reach for, and roughly in what proportion.
Made by an oil painter who kept mixing mud