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How to use your Colour Card

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What is a Colour Card?

Choosing colour is a process that begins with our colour cards. A colour card is a card that presents our full palette of colours, with each shade displayed on a small painted swatch.

The Little Greene paint collections: 'Colours of England' and 'Colour Scales', are designed to make choosing individual shades and combinations as easy as possible.

By simply folding the card away from the unique flying chips, you can compare these shades directly against existing wallpapers, fabrics, tiles, painted walls and any other coordinating elements.

For total colour accuracy, the Little Greene colour cards are made using our Absolute Flat Emulsion straight from the tin. These are not colour-matched inks or printed imitations of colour, so they will react to varying lighting conditions in exactly the same way as your finished walls.

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Navigating our colour card

Our two colour cards bring together the best of our capsule collections, showcasing 196 Little Greene colours. Within your colour card pack, you will find our 'Colours of England' colour card and a smaller card featuring our 'Colour Scales' families.

'Colours of England' meets the growing desire for classic, timeless colours that are both simple to choose and a joy to live with.

The ‘Colour Scales’ colour card offers a further eight families of diluted iconic Little Greene colours, incorporating the ‘Stone’ and ‘Grey’ capsule collections. It is a response to the increasing desire for easy and simple-to-scheme colours that create harmonious and monochromatic backdrops to decoration.

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Sample Pots

Testing actual paint in situ is an essential part of the colour choosing process.

Each of our 196 shades can be bought in a tester pot.

Many site-specific factors will affect the way colours appear, so it's a good idea to test in more than one location, applying two coats over as large an area as you can.

Observe the colours in both daylight and artificial light; the difference can be quite significant.

Avoid positioning small swatches of several colours immediately next to one another - each will affect the way the others read. Also, try to avoid comparing the swatch to bright white - this can be equally misleading.

Learn more about how to use our sample pots or click here to order a sample pot.