MASSTONE

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A color, turned into
a mixing recipe.

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

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What you get

The hard part was never seeing it.It's knowing what to mix.

Whole Parts

The mix comes out in whole parts you can measure with a knife — 2 parts Titanium White, 1 part Ultramarine Blue, 1 part Alizarin Crimson.

Step by Step

Mixing instructions that show the pile's color at each stage, so you know if you're on track.

Your Paint Box

Set which tubes you own and recipes are searched only from those. Star your go-to paints and the search leans toward them. Set one aside to ask "what would this look like without the Cadmium?"

Alternatives

Sometimes a two-paint mix beats a fussier three-paint one. You get the options and pick the one you like.

Tinter Warnings

A heads-up when a strong tinter is about to run away with the mix, before it does.

Pigment Sheets

Tinting strength, color index, and what to substitute if you don't have it.

The one rule

Real color mixing, not RGB averaging.

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.

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green, not grey

In the app

Pick a color.Get a recipe.

Sampling a color from a photograph of a painting, with the matching mix listed below Step-by-step mixing instructions showing the pile's color after each paint is added A pigment sheet for Ultramarine Blue with its tint ladder, tinting strength and replacements A session plan listing three saved mixes and the five tubes to put out for them The My Paints screen showing the nine tubes in your box, with go-to paints starred

How it works

Are you an aspiring artist? Do you struggle with mixing colors? Give Masstone the color you're after — pick it out of a reference photograph, or skip the photo and choose it from a wheel or a hex value — and it gives you a recipe you can act on, from the paints in your box.

Save the colors you'll need as you go, then plan your session: Masstone lists every tube to put out, with the recipe for each saved color. Your last few picks stay in a sample history.

Painting in acrylic? Acrylic mode shows both the dry color, which is what has to match, and the wet color, which is what should be on your palette.

A mixing aid, not a lab instrument.

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