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Warhammer Colour to Citadel Paint Converter
Games Workshop now sells its paints under the Warhammer Colour name, but the pots on most painters' shelves still say Citadel. This converter maps the current Warhammer Colour Base and Layer names onto the Citadel range, so when a new recipe names a paint you don't recognise, you can work out which pot you already own.
Our Warhammer Colour to Citadel converter maps every Warhammer Colour paint to its closest Citadel equivalent. The Citadel side covers the Base and Layer lines, the two ranges that carry the solid, opaque colours most recipes are built on. The Warhammer Colour side covers the Base and Layer ranges under Games Workshop's current naming. The converter compares hex values directly, so results reflect measured colour rather than marketing names, and the four nearest options are always shown.
Measured across the full catalogue, 128 Warhammer Colour paints are compared with 132 Citadel colours. 80 resolve to a very close match (distance 12 or lower) and none fall past 40, so there are no genuine gaps. The median sits at 9.4, which gives a sense of how well the two ranges line up overall. 127 of them carry an official manufacturer conversion, and the tool always prefers that over a computed match.
Example Warhammer Colour to Citadel Conversions
| Warhammer Colour Paint | Citadel Equivalent |
|---|---|
Abaddon Black | Abaddon Black |
Ratskin Flesh | Ratskin Flesh |
Death Guard Green | Death Guard Green |
Celestra Grey | Celestra Grey |
Kantor Blue | Kantor Blue |
The full comparison chart lets you filter by paint name, browse all Warhammer Colour paints, and see the four closest Citadel 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 Citadel equivalent to a Warhammer Colour paint?
Our converter measures the hex value of every Warhammer Colour paint against the full Citadel range and returns the four nearest options, ranked by colour distance. Of the 128 Warhammer Colour paints in our database, 80 have a Citadel 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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