Patent ID: 7277174

Claim:
A method for color-matching a paint having brilliant feeling whose reference blend is already known and which contains a brilliant material, comprising: (1) a step of obtaining liquid color measurement data for an enamel paint not containing a brilliant material, the enamel paint being a paint blend excluding the brilliant material from the reference paint blend of a paint having brilliant feeling whose reference paint blend is already known; (2) a step of obtaining a toned enamel paint adjusted to the liquid color measurement data for the enamel paint by blending and toning a paint material excluding a brilliant material on the basis of the liquid color measurement data for the enamel paint, using a paint blend of a reference color of an enamel paint not containing a brilliant material, and (3) a step of color-matching a paint having brilliant feeling by adding a brilliant material to the toned enamel paint, wherein in the above step (3), a coated plate is prepared for a primary toned paint obtained by adding a reference blending quantity of a brilliant material to the toned enamel paint obtained in the above step (2), the color consistency with the reference plate of a purposed paint having brilliant feeling is determined, and toning is completed when a color is acceptable but toning is further performed to the primary toned paint by adjusting the quantity of the brilliant material when the color of the primary toned paint is not acceptable.