Colour Matching Paint Questions

I’ve recently purchased a used Cotic Flare and plan on keeping it for a long time. Paintwork on the frame and fork is a tad tatty in places. I plan to tidy up and then invisiframe. I contacted Cotic and they kindly advised on a Revel model paint that’s a good colour match,

Unfortunately when I’ve tried said paint it’s drying in a very different colour. I’m also wanting to tidy up the x-fusion fork. Does anybody know a way of finding matched paint for both frame and fork or a company that will touch up?

Picture of paint below 😕

If you can find a set of ral or pantone colour cards that might say if one of those is close. It is then a matter of finding a suitable paint in the right ral shade.

A car repair centre might be able to help but I can’t see it being cost effective, probably easier to repaint the whole thing. That’s not a common car colour because the other option is to go into halfords and look at the repair kits to see what is close.

That looks like that is the kind of colour you’d get nail varnish in. Go along to superdrug and see what they have.

Thanks. Never thought of nail varnish. I have the panatone colour from InvisiFrame as I’ve had a set of fork decals done in the frame colour. Time to go makeup shopping!

Try to find a PROPER car paint shop. They will have a set of ‘chips’ (colour samples) that you can use to match against your frame, and they’ll mix up the appropriate paint to suit.

Go on a fine day so you can take everything outside to get a proper daylight match.

On the fork has it a satin black finish?

I’ve used a standard satin black spray can on a couple of Pikes to good effect.