Swatch paint examples

[Deacon Blues]

I imagine I'm not the only one who finds the Cerakote photos of the various colours a bit confusing. When looking at a specific colour I found that the colours in the accompanying photos didn't match.
I don't know if it will help much, but here's a couple of photos (taken outside) of the possible colour choices for both my wife and my helios bikes.

Left to right: Blue flame C-158, Bright white H-140, and Wild purple H-197

Left to right: charcoal green H-338, Titanium H-170, and Titanium C-150

 

[Deacon Blues]

My wife is going with the white or titanium and I'm probably going with the charcoal green

 

[pushkar]

I ordered the entire set. Any interest in me doing short videos to review the real colors ? We have 148 or so colors.

 

[pushkar]

I’d be happy to do quick 1 minute reviews of what colors actually look like and what May make sense. Realistically only 40 -50 of them are real. Rest are close enough.

 

[Cuz Vinny]

I’d be happy to do quick 1 minute reviews of what colors actually look like and what May make sense. Realistically only 40 -50 of them are real. Rest are close enough.

Do you have Midnight Bronze?

 

[pushkar]

Do you have Midnight Bronze?

Yes. looks great. I’ll post some of my favs in a separate post. And take requests.

 

[reed scott]

I’d be happy to do quick 1 minute reviews of what colors actually look like and what May make sense. Realistically only 40 -50 of them are real. Rest are close enough.

Sounds like a lot of work for you Pushkar. Probably better if people ordered their own samples. Whatever you put on the web is subject to lighting, camera used and individual computer screens rendering of a color or shade. In my particular case I feel I got a good enough idea of the color I like by looking at ... like a hundred different pictures on the Cerakote site with lots of lighting examples, outdoor, indoor and various lighting scenarios. I know I will not know the actual real color till the bike arrives but I'm just not all that picky. I picked a humble color anyway. Not into flashy.

 

[Deacon Blues]

Pushkar, maybe just pick out a half a dozen of your favourite colours. If you can, take a photo of them outside in natural sunlight. I found the six swatches that I received looked different inside, under artifical light compared to outside.

 

[AdilDesai]

@pushkar, please also maybe highlight what you think the default color(s) will be. If the default is nice, some of us might not go custom.

 

[pushkar]

great idea ..
black / grey is typically fairly universal.. but there are a couple that might look great too.

 

[RandomCrap]

I ordered a good number of colors... I'll photograph them tomorrow and post.

 

[RandomCrap]

Here are a few pictures of the samples I ordered. I shot these outdoors on old pavement (the closest thing handy to a 50% gray).

In the first, we have (L-R)
H-171 NRA Blue
H-169 Sky Blue
H-220 Ridgeway Blue
H-172 Sea Blue
H-329 Blue Raspberry
H-175 Robin's Egg Blue

In the second picture, we have
H-221 Crimson
H-346 Hi-Vis Orange
H-309 Tequila Sunrise
H-310 Copper Suede

I intended to get the bright orange, but I think I'm getting the crimson now.

The third picture shows the last two colors on a slant, to try to show the metallic flecks.