For miniature & wargaming painters
Match any miniature paint color, even the discontinued ones.
Photograph a pot, a painted model, or a reference. Chromilla gives you exact ratios in the acrylics you already have on your palette.
The discontinued-pot problem
Every miniature painter has the same drawer: half-empty pots of a colour the manufacturer stopped making three years ago. You're one highlight layer short and the only way to finish the model is to mix it yourself, from memory, and hope.
Chromilla doesn't guess. Photograph the pot, or the part of the model still wearing the old colour, and it reads the actual colour and works out a ratio from the paints you tell it you own. No new catalogue to buy into. Same honest matching the tool already does for every other painter.
Why dry-down matters more at this scale
Miniature painting is thin coats, drybrushing and details a few millimetres across. A colour that dries three shades darker than it looked wet is a bigger problem on a 28mm model than on a canvas. Chromilla's solver aims at the dry colour, not the wet one in the pot, because that's the colour that actually ends up on the model.
Chromilla uses subtractive Kubelka-Munk mixing on real pigment data and calibrates each recipe against the tubes from your brand. We normalise for tinting strength and dry-down per medium, so the parts you see are the parts you actually squeeze. Read the full method.
What Chromilla doesn't do yet
Chromilla doesn't have a built-in Citadel, Army Painter or Vallejo Model Color catalogue yet, so it won't tell you "3 parts Mephiston Red, 1 part Wild Rider Red" by name. What it will do is take the colour itself (photographed, scanned, or typed as a hex code) and mix it in whatever brand you already paint with. If a named-brand miniature catalogue matters to you, tell us. It's next on the list.
Common questions
How do I match a Citadel or Army Painter color with paint I already have?
Photograph the pot or the model, or enter the color as a hex code if you know it. Chromilla matches it to a ratio in whichever acrylic brand you tell it you're using.
What do I use instead of a discontinued miniature paint?
Match the color from a photo of the model or a leftover swatch rather than the empty pot. Chromilla will give you the closest reachable mix in your current palette and say plainly if it can't fully reach it.
Does this work for drybrushing and layering, not just base coats?
Yes. Enter the target color for any stage and it returns a ratio for that stage specifically. Thin the mix yourself for drybrushing; Chromilla gives the pigment ratio, not the water content.
Which acrylic brands does Chromilla support?
The full list is on the mixer page. Miniature-specific ranges (Citadel, Army Painter, Vallejo Model Color, Scale75) aren't in yet.