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The colors made for tinting white paint for outside house painting are ground in linseed oil to a thick paste. They are put up in one-pound and five-pound cans and 12½-pound and 25-pound pails. Larger packages can be had for special purposes.

There are several grades of tinting colors. It will pay to buy the best grade, because such colors are brighter, clearer and have greater tinting strength. A lesser quantity of high grade tinting color is required to tint a white paint to a desired color. Cheaper grades of tinting colors not only lack tinting strength, but are apt to be cloudy, or muddy.

There are some variations in names of tinting colors since some manufacturers give special names to certain grades of standard colors, but the principal colors ground in oil for tinting house paints are these: