How to Mix Gold in Acrylic
A metallic-looking warm gold in matte paint. This guide gives you the pigment ratios that land on #C6A44A in acrylic, using the same solver that powers the Chromilla mixer.
Target
Gold
#C6A44A
Mixed result
99% matchFrom these pigments
#C7A549
Pigment recipe
Ratios calibrated for acrylic. Start with the dominant pigment, add the modifiers in the order below, and adjust in 5% steps to your target swatch.
1. Titanium White
PW6
83%2. Raw Umber
PBr7
17%
What colours make Gold?
Titanium White and Raw Umber, in roughly a 83:17 ratio.
How to make Gold in acrylic
Start with Titanium White at about 83% as your acrylic base, then work in Raw Umber in the order above. Adjust in 5% steps until the swatch reads #C6A44A.
Why mix Gold instead of buying it
Mixing Gold yourself lets you approximate an expensive or hard to find tube from pigments you already own, match Gold across paint brands whose factory tubes differ, and rebuild the exact colour when you run out mid painting. The recipe above is the working starting point.
Common mistakes
White cools and chalks a mix as you add it, so tint in small steps and stop before it goes pastel.
Get this recipe for your paint brand
Open the live mixer with Gold + acrylic pre-loaded and calibrate to your tubes.
Deep-dive guide
How to mix Gold, the long version
Common mistakes, per-brand recipes, and the honest limits when the target sits outside what real paint can reach.
Read the guideRelated mixing guides
Pigment mixing is subtractive, so small ratio changes matter. The mixer refines this recipe to your brand and updates on the fly.