Colour
Every record carries a palette extracted from its product imagery, and a colour language to say it in — 24 terms across 3 vocabularies of family, mood, and undertone. Ranking compares the whole palette, never a single swatch.
Cross-brand
Type a paint name — even loosely — and the graph resolves it to the colour it means, then answers with materials that sit beside it: tile, textile, timber, from any brand. The resolution and every swatch here come from a real engine run.
48 cross-brand matches · 1,108ms, measured
Each cell is a matched material’s extracted colour.
A mood query resolves to one of these fixed palettes — curated, versioned, and identical on every run. Evocative in, deterministic out.
Warm
Reds, oranges, yellows - inviting and cozy
Cool
Blues, teals, cool grays - calm and professional
Earthy
Browns, tans, terracotta - natural and grounded
Moody
Deep, saturated, dramatic - rich and atmospheric
Bold
High chroma, vibrant - energetic and eye-catching
Light + Airy
Pastels, pale tones - soft and spacious
Natural
Greens, wood tones, stone - organic and balanced
Neutral
Whites, grays, blacks - versatile and timeless
Romantic
Soft pinks, mauves, blush - tender and elegant
Coastal
Sandy beiges, ocean blues, seafoam - relaxed seaside
Industrial
Cool grays, concrete, metallic - urban and modern
Luxe
Deep jewel tones, rich emeralds, sapphires - opulent
Vintage
Muted, dusty tones - nostalgic and timeworn
Serene
Soft blues, sage, muted lavender - calm and peaceful
Scandi
Warm whites, pale woods, cream - Scandinavian minimalism
Cosy
Deep plaster, amber, tobacco - enveloping warmth
Heritage
Rich historical tones with saturated depth - classic and grounded
Mid-Century
Olive, mustard, teal, terracotta - retro modern
Pastel
Sage, duck egg, blush - soft colors with body
Family, mood, and undertone are dictionaries with canonical terms and known aliases. For an agent, that means a filter value is guaranteed valid before the query runs — no fuzzy matching downstream, no guessing what a brand meant.
Colour Family
Which colour the material reads as, measured from its palette's dominant colour.
Colour Mood
The compositional character of the whole palette — never a single swatch's.
Colour Undertone
The warmth cast of the dominant colour: warm, cool, or neutral.
Honesty
Colour is derived from product imagery, never manufacturer-declared. The graph reports it as visual likeness — what the material looks like in its photography — and never as a stated colour specification.
A one-swatch palette means the material is genuinely monochrome, not that a list was trimmed. And when no palette is on record, the record says nothing at all — absent means unknown, never a guess.
For machines
Two calls: resolve a colour phrase to the hex it means, then rank the catalog against it — optionally gated by family or category in the same query.
Explore the developer surface →curl "https://beta.materialgraph.com/api/v1/search/colours/resolve?name=white+dove" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer mg_read_..."