SOURCES FOR RGB COLOR VALUES

RGB VALUES FOR COLORBOND COLOURS

Refer to this PDF.

DULUX REVIT ADD-IN

Dulux provide a free Revit add-in that creates Revit materials with RGB values matching their colours. Includes powdercoats and metallic colours.

You need to register to download it.

http://www.dulux.com.au/specifier/colour/bim#

AVERAGE RGB COLOR OF A MATERIAL SAMPLE

In Revit, we often have to input RGB values for various color properties, such as shaded view colors for a particular material, or if you want a specific Paint color for a rendered material. To do this, you can use Paint.NET and the Color Picker tool - the resultant properties include the RGB values you need.

However, you may obtain a sample image of a material, but the color is irregular. For example, you scan in a paint sample and there is a color variation in the scanned image. Or perhaps you simply want to take a detailed pattern sample image and find out the average color of a particular part of that image.

Here's how you do it:

• 1. Download Paint.NET

  2. Download Average Color plugin

  3. Copy the DLL file from the extracted Average Color ZIP you downloaded into the 'Effects' folder, which is in you Paint.NET installation directory (for example: C:\Program Files\Paint.NET\Effects\)

  4. Open Paint.NET

  5. Open the image you want to find an average color from.

  6. Make a rectangular selection.

  7. Click on the Effects menu - Average Color

  8. Now click on the Color Picker tool (looks like an Eyedropper)

  9. On the 'Colors' palette, click the More>> button

  10. The RGB values for your selected color are shown.

  11. In Revit, input those RGB values for the desired color or material

Average Color of Selection forum thread

Plugin to Average Color of Selection - Paint.NET Forum

COLOR UTILITIES

CONVERT BETWEEN HEX VALUES AND RGB VALUES

Hex vaules are used for web and computer display. Sometimes the colour is only described in HEX.

http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/hex-to-rgb/color-converter.php

COLOUR SCHEME DESIGNER

Utility to identify complementary colors and other color combinations.

http://colorschemedesigner.com/