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Such color pigments as are commonly used for interior decoration, furniture finishing, polychrome finishing and by artists for pictorial painting constitute quite a different class from colors made for exterior house painting.

While many of the principal colors, like the umbers and siennas, used for exterior paints are also made in clearer, brighter and more select grades for use by artists and decorators, many of the color pigments in the artists' and decorators' palette are too fugitive and expensive to use for exterior paints.

Descriptions of colors used for exterior paints will be found in Chapters II, III and IV.

The following brief descriptions of colors in common use will help to identify them in the students' mind: