Barcelona Red..Radiant Red?

From the chart on :http://fleet.toyota.com/html/documents/MY_...Color_Chart.pdf Barcelona Red appears darker and richer than either of the other two.

I am considering BR for my purchase here in Australia (what a decision!!).

 

Have you read this thread.... its still at the bottom of the page....posted yesterday at 10:11 pm

http://priuschat.com/Just-looked-at-a-Barc...Red-t13105.html

 

Color is notoriously hard to communicate. The paint is made of many pigments, with metalic flakes and a clear coat top. The color of the light illuminating the paint changes how the color looks, as the pigments and metals absorb and reflect various wave lengths of light.

You're looking at a CRT screen that is putting out red green and blue light, or an LCD screen that is filtering out cyan, magenta, and yellow light, but it's very unlikely that what you're looking at is calibrated, so every one of us is seeing a different color of light coming from our screens.

Color from a screen is the addition of colors, color from a paint is the subtraction of colors. Completely different in how the eye perceives color.

That's where an external color reference can come in handy. The <a href=\'http://www.pantone.com/\' target=\'_blank\'>Pantone Corporation</a> has the Pantone Matching System (PMS) color reference which is used by graphics artists around the world ro communicate color.

Barcelona Red is almost PMS 484 with a touch more cyan and a little less black. The only way to really understand the color is to see the paint, but here's a comparison that can give you a very general idea. I included a pure black and pure white circle for reference. The JPEG and PDF are the same material.[attachmentid=1171]

 

Here are a couple more I got off another thread...