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Tubomix is a virtual palette that behaves like real paint. Squeeze your tubes, mix, see the result before you waste a single drop. A colour to match? Tubomix gives you the recipe with your own tubes, in parts that are easy to measure.
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What you will see
These previews are computed by the Tubomix engine from measured paints.
Mix freely
Hansa yellow light (lemon) + Phthalo blue (green shade): as in real life, the mix goes through bright greens, not grey.
Yellow ochre + Ultramarine blue: soft, natural greens, the greens of landscapes.
Find the recipe for a colour
With only five tubes (white, black, yellow, magenta, cyan):
- 4 parts — Hansa yellow medium
- 1 part — Titanium white
- 1 part — Quinacridone magenta
Difference from the colour wanted: 2.7 (below 2 the eye hardly sees it; up to 5 it is very close).
Know your tubes
Anders Zorn’s palette, each tube with more and more white.
- Yellow ochre
- Cadmium red medium
- Ivory black (bone black)
Why Tubomix is different
Computed like paint
Blue + yellow gives green, not grey: each tube is described by how it absorbs and returns light, as in real life.
With your own tubes
Recipes use only the tubes in your box, in simple parts (“3 parts white, 1 part red”).
Honest when it can’t be done
If a colour is out of reach of your tubes, Tubomix says so, offers the closest one and the tube you are missing.
At your place, not ours
No account, no cookies: your tubes and mixes stay on your device, even offline.
Try it, it makes no mess
Try, get it wrong, start again, and waste nothing.
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