Paint Swatch Matcher

Back in 2013 I wanted to try using a phone to match paint colors. Ambitious, I know. But it is an interesting idea that I think has merit. The idea is to use paint swatch samples from the store as a color reference, then take a picture of it against the wall in question. With that, you could calibrate the picture against the color swatch and maybe get a reasonable color match. I never completed it, and it doesn’t implement any of the calibration. But it lets you take a picture and get the closest match from a database I compiled. None of this is remotely accurate, but it was a fun project of making a simple web app.

I recently dusted it off and updated some deprecated apis to get it working again. No functionality has been changed or improved yet.

Here is the Paint Swatch Matcher app.