In search of paint forumlations.

[dbhost]

Or more specifically color samples to get matched.

I have the Rockler Signmakers templates State Park fonts in all 3 sizes, and I want to do actual State Park style signs, complete with the brown main color paint, and the yellow text.

I would actually like the colors to be somewhat accurate-ish....

Does anyone know what paint colors these actually are, like specific color names Like Behr Grizzly Bear Scat brown or soemthing like that? Or perhaps can anyone recommend a color sample that I can have color matched? What I am coming up with is, off, at best...

I have a sign I want to make for my camper, one I want to make one of my friends class A RVs, and one for my brothers fifth wheel trailer... Trying to get a jump on Christmas this year...

[twistsol]

My son in law did the research last year when he put up the sign on his island in Lake Superior and here is his response.

"From the Nationa Parks System Style Guide. The brown is referred to as Recreation Brown by the bureau of land management. Here is the code for it. If you enter it into google, it should pop right up: PMS 4695

The yellow is "School Bus Yellow" and is coded: PMS 108 C

I just went to Menards and found the closest matches to those, and it worked out well."

Here is the sign from a picture taken 3 weeks ago.

[Jim Frye]

Contact a nearby state park to see if their maintenance department can address your questions? I would bet this varies from state to state. I bet our local Metropark even has their own. Don't know if taking a picture and using it to have paint custom mixed would work. I needed touchup paint for my Ryobi riding mower and took one of my chargers to the nearby Benjamin Moore dealer. The quart of Advance they mixed is nearly a dead match.

[LCHIEN]

Some examples from Searching google images for trail signs and hiking signs.





I don't think there is one standard color.

[twistsol]

My son in law did the research last year when he put up the sign on his island in Lake Superior and here is his response.

"From the Nationa Parks System Style Guide. The brown is referred to as Recreation Brown by the bureau of land management. Here is the code for it. If you enter it into google, it should pop right up: PMS 4695

The yellow is "School Bus Yellow" and is coded: PMS 108 C

I just went to Menards and found the closest matches to those, and it worked out well."

Here is the sign from a picture taken 3 weeks ago.

[dbhost]

twistsol Thats exactly the colors I was talking about.

Yes, there is, or at least SHOULD be a style guide for each federal agency / department. I.E. NASA when I worked for them had their style guide, specific fonts, particular shades of whatever colors that I don't recall because I rarely needed it and had the web page bookmarked...

The school bus yellow makes perfect sense as it looks frighteningly familiar now...

I believe School Bus Yellow if my Google skills are still good is Pantone #13415
Recreation Brown appears to be the same exact thing as "Forest Service Sign Brown", I cannot find a Pantone color chip for it, but I can find hexidecimal. 5d4e4a.

Apparently Home Depot is able to color match to hexidecimal color codes.

I know TXPWD uses the Federal Color Schema in most parks I have been to, however I have noticed some off colors last time I was at Galveston Island State Park, so while there IS a standard, they might not stick to it all that closely...

Anyway, the plan is to make simple signs saying "Welcome to FAMILY NAME campsite"

In my van, and my friends class A just slide it in the windshield when we get to camp. For my brother and his fifth wheel, no clue what he is going to do...

He has a twisted sense of humor. Maybe I will just get him a Camp Crystal Lake sign instead....