779 colors

Red

Reds gain intensity over a big area - a swatch almost always undersells how strong the finished wall looks.

A searchable red shade card and colour chart: every red paint color from 6 manufacturers side by side, with hex codes, LRV and cross-brand matches.

  • 6brands
  • 3–82LRV range
  • 779warm
  • 0cool

Every red Lightest to darkest - tap a color to open it

Common questions

How many red paint colors are there?

This page lists 779 red paint colors from 6 brands - Benjamin Moore (289), PPG Paints (125), Sherwin-Williams (104), Berger Paints (98), Behr (90), Shalimar Paints (73) - each with its manufacturer code, hex value, RGB, LRV and undertone.

What is the paint code for a red color on this page?

Every swatch shows its manufacturer code beneath the name - Berger Paints Pale Woodrose is 1P0006, for example. That code is what a store mixes from, and it is unique to its brand: the same code at another manufacturer is an unrelated color.

Which red paint colors suit a dark room?

The ones with a high Light Reflectance Value, which is the percentage of light a color reflects. These red colors run from LRV 3.2 (Sherwin-Williams Rookwood Dark Red) to LRV 81.7 (Berger Paints Pale Woodrose); above 60 keeps a room bright, below 30 reads as a deep color and absorbs the light a dark room has left.

Are these red paint colors warm or cool?

Both - 779 of the 779 are warm and 0 are cool, with the rest neutral. The label is computed from each color's hue angle and chroma in CIE L*a*b*, not from its name, so it can be compared across brands. Warm red suits north-facing rooms, cool red suits rooms that already get strong afternoon light.

How do you compare red paint colors from different brands?

Open any swatch on this page. It lists the closest color in each of the other brands with a ΔE00 figure - perceived color difference, where under 1.0 is indistinguishable side by side and above 4 is visible across a room. The comparison covers published color values only, not sheen, base or coverage.

Is this a red paint shade card?

It is the same information, online and searchable. Where a printed shade card or colour chart gives you a chip and a name, every red swatch here carries its code, hex, RGB, LRV and undertone, and its nearest equivalents at the other brands in the catalog - with nothing to download and no fan deck to order.