PaletteMix is a free color mixing tool built for oil painters. Upload a reference photo, tap any color, and get a recipe using your actual palette β with practical guidance on how to handle the mix. 30 brands. Nearly 3,000 paints. Real spectral color science. No account required.
Other mixing tools do math on screen colors and hope for the best. PaletteMix works the way paint actually mixes β modeling how pigments absorb and scatter light across the visible spectrum, then scoring every recipe with the same perceptual metric used in color science labs.
No mixing tool is perfect β we'll tell you exactly where the limits are. But for the vast majority of mixes in a working painter's day, PaletteMix gets you close enough that your eye can finish the job.
A recipe that says "Phthalo Blue 5%, Titanium White 95%" without warning you about tinting strength is a recipe for wasted paint. PaletteMix doesn't just tell you what to mix β it tells you how to think about the mix.
21 pigments flagged with dosing guidance a painter can use β "rice-grain amount" for Phthalo Green, "tiny knife-edge" for Quinacridone Rose.
Warnings when a recipe combines pigments that need care β like dioxazine violet going chalky in flesh mixes, or cadmiums getting gritty with certain blues.
Warns you before you mix near-complementaries into mud. Sees the problem before you squeeze the tubes.
Every recipe tells you which pile to start from. Small detail, big difference in paint waste.
Shows what your mix will look like in six months if it contains linseed-oil-sensitive pigments.
Tapped a shiny highlight? PaletteMix warns you when the picked color is a reflection, not a mixable surface color.
All 30 brands and nearly 3,000 paints are free. Not "free for 5 brands, pay to unlock the rest." Actually free. Build a palette that matches your actual tube rack β mix brands, mix grades, whatever you own.
PaletteMix works on your phone at the easel, your tablet in the studio, or your laptop at home. It's a web app β nothing to install, nothing to update, nothing to pay for.
PaletteMix started because the tools that existed either locked paints behind a paywall, only worked with one brand, or gave recipes with no practical mixing guidance.
This isn't a Silicon Valley product looking for a market. It's a tool built by AdriΓ‘n GonzΓ‘lez Molina, a painter who got tired of wasting Cadmium Red on bad guesses. The color science is real. The advice is real. And the accuracy data is published because painters deserve to know what they're working with.