PaintColorHQ MCP
A hosted Model Context Protocol server that finds the closest real, purchasable paint colors across 13 brands for any hex value, scored with CIEDE2000. It provides tools to look up colors by name and match hex values across brands without requiring authentication.
Endpoint and access
No sign-in to connect and list tools. Individual tools may still need a vendor account, credentials, or permissions; check the documented prerequisites.
https://www.paintcolorhq.com/api/mcpWhat you can do with it
- Find closest cross-brand paint equivalents for a hex value
- Look up paint color details by name or number
- List available paint brands and their color counts
Source and maintenance
- Maintenance checked
Protocol and capabilities
- Server
- paintcolorhq-color-match 1.1.0
- MCP protocol
- 2025-06-18
- Tools
- 3 advertised
- Resources
- Not advertised
- Resource templates
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- Prompts
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{
"tools": {
"listChanged": false
}
}Server-provided instructions
Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.
Tools
3 advertised
match_paint_color
Find the closest real, purchasable paint colors across 13 major brands (Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, Behr, Valspar, PPG, Dunn-Edwards, and more) for any hex color, scored with the CIEDE2000 (Delta-E) perceptual color-difference standard. Use this to answer "what is the [brand] equivalent of [a paint color]", to cross-reference a paint color across brands, or to turn a hex/RGB value into named paint colors you can actually buy. If you only have a paint color's name or number, call find_paint_color first to get its hex. Each result returns the brand, color name, color number, hex, a closeness label and availability (current, retired or discontinued). Data and method: PaintColorHQ (paintcolorhq.com).
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"hex"
],
"properties": {
"hex": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Target color as a 6-digit hex code, with or without '#' (e.g. '7F9B8E' or '#7F9B8E')."
},
"brand": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional. Restrict matches to one brand slug, e.g. 'sherwin-williams', 'benjamin-moore', 'behr', 'valspar', 'ppg', 'dunn-edwards'."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"maximum": 10,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Optional. Number of cross-brand matches to return (1–10). Default 10."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "Cross-brand paint color match",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": true
}find_paint_color
Look up a specific paint color by name or color number (e.g. 'Agreeable Gray', 'SW 7029', 'HC-154', 'Hale Navy Benjamin Moore') and get its brand, color number, hex and availability (current, retired or discontinued). Use it to get the hex of a named paint color before calling match_paint_color, or to check that a color name or number exists. Searches 26,000+ colors across 13 brands; call list_brands for the brand slugs.
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"query"
],
"properties": {
"brand": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional. Restrict the search to one brand slug from list_brands, e.g. 'behr'."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"maximum": 10,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Optional. Number of colors to return (1–10). Default 5."
},
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Color name, color number, or both, optionally with the brand name (e.g. 'Agreeable Gray', 'SW 7029', 'Repose Gray sherwin williams')."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "Find a paint color by name or number",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": true
}list_brands
List the 13 paint brands PaintColorHQ covers, with each brand's slug (the value the brand argument of match_paint_color and find_paint_color takes), its name and its number of colors.
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "List paint brands",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": false
}Prompts
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Resources
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30-day availability
Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.
- Successful checks
- 1 of 1 (100%)
- Average latency
- 652 ms
- 95th percentile latency
- 652 ms
Maintenance history
Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.
- · probe · passed · 652 ms · metadata changed · 3 tool(s)
Connect from your client
Each snippet registers the same endpoint; pick the client you use.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http paintcolorhq-mcp https://www.paintcolorhq.com/api/mcpCodex
codex mcp add paintcolorhq-mcp --url https://www.paintcolorhq.com/api/mcpCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"paintcolorhq-mcp": {
"url": "https://www.paintcolorhq.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"paintcolorhq-mcp": {
"type": "streamableHttp",
"url": "https://www.paintcolorhq.com/api/mcp",
"disabled": false
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"paintcolorhq-mcp": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://www.paintcolorhq.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Gemini CLI
gemini mcp add --transport http paintcolorhq-mcp https://www.paintcolorhq.com/api/mcpClaude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"paintcolorhq-mcp": {
"url": "https://www.paintcolorhq.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Windsurf
{
"mcpServers": {
"paintcolorhq-mcp": {
"serverUrl": "https://www.paintcolorhq.com/api/mcp"
}
}
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