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

If you have a better reference for any of these, please send it my way and I’ll update this list.