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Citadel to Warhammer Colour Paint Converter
Most painting guides, and most of the pots already on your desk, still use Citadel names. This converter runs from Citadel into the current Warhammer Colour naming, so you can find the right pot on a shop shelf when the label has changed but the paint inside has not.
Our Citadel to Warhammer Colour converter maps every Citadel paint to its closest Warhammer Colour equivalent. The Warhammer Colour side covers the Base and Layer ranges under Games Workshop's current naming. The Citadel side covers the Base and Layer lines, the two ranges that carry the solid, opaque colours most recipes are built on. Rather than guessing from colour families, the tool measures the distance between hex values and sorts the results so the closest available option always comes first.
All 132 Citadel paints in our database are measured against 128 Warhammer Colour colours. 81 land within a very close match (a colour distance of 12 or less) and none sit beyond 40, so every colour has a usable counterpart. The median distance across the range is 9.4.
Example Citadel to Warhammer Colour Conversions
| Citadel Paint | Warhammer Colour Equivalent |
|---|---|
Ceramite White | Corax White |
Ratskin Flesh | Ratskin Flesh |
Abaddon Black | Abaddon Black |
Nocturne Green | Nocturne Green |
Kantor Blue | Kantor Blue |
The full comparison chart lets you filter by paint name, browse all Citadel paints, and see the four closest Warhammer Colour matches for each — sorted by colour accuracy. Colour distance is calculated using RGB Euclidean distance across our database of a hoard paints from many brands.
Frequently asked questions
What is the closest Warhammer Colour equivalent to a Citadel paint?
Our converter measures the hex value of every Citadel paint against the full Warhammer Colour range and returns the four nearest options, ranked by colour distance. Of the 132 Citadel paints in our database, 81 have a Warhammer Colour match within a colour distance of 12.
Are Warhammer Colour and Citadel the same paints?
Largely, yes. Warhammer Colour is Games Workshop's current branding for the range long sold as Citadel, and most colours keep the same name and the same paint inside the pot. This chart exists because the two namings coexist on shelves and in tutorials, so you can match a recipe written in one against the pots you actually own.
Why do a few Warhammer Colour and Citadel entries differ?
Three things changed with the rename. A handful of paints were reclassified between the Base and Layer ranges, the published hex values were revised across most of the range, and the metallics are not carried in our Citadel data. Everything else maps one-to-one, which is why almost every entry here resolves to an exact-name match.
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