Drop Zone

Drop Zone is a colour mixing studio for painters who work in real pigments. Put paint on a digital bench, set the parts, and see 👀 the true mixed colour rendered from actual pigment reflectance data rather than a simple ✨ average 📐 of RGB values. Start 🚀 on the Bench by choosing pigments and setting how many parts of each to use. The app 📱 works out the resulting hex code, Lightness, Chroma and Hue, then reports lightfastness, hiding power and tinting strength so you know 💡 how the mix 🥣 will behave on canvas. Switch between body colour and glaze, adjust the medium load, and check how a mix reads over a white, grey, black or coloured ground. Every reading also shows how much the colour shifts under daylight, incandescent and fluorescent light. Use Match to work backwards from a colour you want to a recipe you can paint with. Sample a reference photo 📸, dial in a hex code, drag ✋ sliders and a colour wheel, or borrow the colour from a mix 🥣 you already saved. Choose how many pigments to allow, how strict the match should be, and whether white or black are fair game 🎮, then let the solver search your palette for recipes. Results are sorted by accuracy, fewest pigments or permanence, and each one comes with a step-by-step mixing order. The Shelf in Drop Zone holds a catalogue of pigments identified by their real Colour Index names, each with an opacity class, an ASTM lightfastness rating, a masstone and undertone swatch, and a full tint ladder. Build 🔨 palettes from the pigments on your own shelf and keep them close at hand while mixing and matching. Trials trains your eye with short drills that score 🔢 how close your guess lands to a target 🎯 colour, breaking any miss down into value, chroma and hue so you know 💡 exactly what to adjust next time ⏱️. Mastery rings track five topics, and a readiness gauge shows how close you are to taking the timed Studio Test. Drop Zone keeps every saved mix, target and test result on hand, so your palette knowledge builds up the more you use it.