Paint code finder
Find your car's paint color code
32,466 factory colors from 65 makes. Type anything, or choose make, model and year. Tap a color to see its code and how to get the paint.
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Then pick your model and model year to see every factory color offered, with its paint code.
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Common confusion
Paint code or hex code? They are not the same thing
Colors on a screen and colors on a car are described in completely different ways. Only one of them can get you the right paint.
OEM paint code 040
A short identifier the manufacturer assigns to a factory color, such as Toyota 040 (Super White) or Honda NH731P (Crystal Black Pearl). It is printed on a label on your car and is what paint suppliers and body shops use to mix an exact match.
Use this to order paint.
Hex code #F1F1EE
A value that tells a screen which pixels to light up. It is only an on-screen approximation of a color and says nothing about how the real paint was formulated, its metallic flake, pearl, or how it has aged.
Use this for design work, never for ordering paint. The swatches on this site are approximations for orientation only.
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Where to find your paint code on the car
The code is recorded on the vehicle itself. Check these places, in order of how often manufacturers use them.
Driver's door jamb
Open the driver's door and look at the sticker on the door frame (not the door panel). Most brands print the paint code here next to the VIN and tire pressures.
Glovebox or trunk
Some manufacturers, especially certain European and Japanese brands, put the sticker inside the glovebox lid or in the trunk near the spare tire well.
Under the hood
A number of makes place a build sticker on the radiator support or strut tower that lists the paint code among other build details.
Decode your VIN
Sticker missing or unreadable? Your 17-character VIN can be decoded to recover the original factory code. Any dealer parts department can do it.
From code to paint
How to actually get your color
A paint code tells you which color you have. To get paint that matches it, you need to turn the code into a real product. Every color on this tool has a panel with these options, tailored to that code.
- Confirm the code. Check your door jamb label or decode your VIN. Note any variant or trim code beside it.
- Pick the right format. Chips and scratches need a touch-up pen or bottle. A mirror cap or bumper corner suits a custom-mixed aerosol. A full panel needs mixed basecoat for a spray gun. Anything large or visible usually belongs with a body shop.
- Ask for the mix by code. A paint supplier looks the code up in their mixing system. That system holds the formula: the recipe of toners and amounts that produces your color in that supplier’s paint line.
- Test before you spray. Spray a test card, let it cure and check it against the car in daylight. Old paint fades, so plan to blend into neighbouring panels.
About mixing formulas
Formulas are proprietary. PPG, Sherwin-Williams, Axalta and BASF each keep their own database and each formulates the same OEM code differently, often with several variants per code. That is why we show you the code, the layers your color probably needs and a ready-to-send request, rather than publish recipes that could be wrong. The formula step happens at the supplier, in seconds, from the code.
Data and accuracy
Where this data comes from
Color names, paint codes and model-year ranges are compiled from public reference listings, chiefly the paint-code catalog published by ChipFixx, and we keep only factual fields: make, model, color name, code and years. Manufacturers change and reuse codes, and reference lists can contain gaps or errors, so treat every entry as a strong lead rather than a guarantee. Always confirm the code on your vehicle's own label or with your VIN before you buy paint.
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