Tom Sachs's COLOR Hex Codes
I come back to COLOR by Tom Sachs whenever I want to force myself into an artistic decision.
It tells me: take a stance on the infinite spectrum of artistic choice, commit, and defend your reasons. They’re as good as any others.
This time, I realized that I haven’t seen these colors (the static set they use in their studio) written out online. I think Sachs might hate these being reduced to hex codes, so I’m going to do it here.
Most of the colors in the film are only described as a reference to a paint or brand color; I’ve done the best I can to get an accurate hex code.
Color |
Reference |
Hex |
Image |
White |
Benjamin Moore’s Decorator’s White |
#EBEDEA |
 |
Green |
Olive Drab #7 |
#3C341F |
 |
Yellow |
McDonald’s yellow (Golden Acrylic C.P. Cadmium yellow medium, #1130-6, series 7) or Kodak yellow (Golden Acrylic Diarylide yellow, #1147-6, series 6) |
#FFCC00 |
 |
Red |
McDonald’s red (Benjamin Moore Impervex latex high gloss metal and wood enamel, brilliant red 309 20) |
#DA291C |
 |
Blue |
They kinda punt on picking a blue color, but anchor on: police barricade blue |
#004B87 |
 |
Blue |
They kinda punt on picking a blue color, but also anchor on: Gulf Porsche blue |
#96D0E5 |
 |
Orange |
Hermes orange |
#F37021 |
 |
Black |
Benjamin Moore Impervex latex high gloss metal and wood enamel, black 309 80 |
#151515 |
 |
Purple |
forbidden in the studio |
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If you have a better reference for any of these, please send it my way and I’ll update this list.
Josh Beckman
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