The Cassidy Color System was developed out of my many years of experience in the paint industry. Over these decades, I’ve identified a significant gap in how people view, select, and ultimately purchase color. Despite the foundational techniques taught in design schools, many professionals and homeowners have strayed from the practices that ensure accurate color selection. The Cassidy Color System aims to bring back these essential methods, offering a straightforward and effective approach to color selection, paint matching, and environmentally conscious paint production.
At its core, the Cassidy Color System is grounded in principles of color isolation, juxtaposition, and spontaneous contrast—concepts that are often taught but seldom fully utilized in practice. When customers visit big box stores or a major paint retailer, they are often faced with overwhelming walls of color chips, typically consisting of thousands of options. This display makes it nearly impossible to discern a single color accurately. Furthermore, many stores have abandoned the practice of providing proper samples, opting instead for tiny dots of paint on cans or small flat finish printed chips, which fail to represent the true color.
A key component of the Cassidy Color System is the patent-pending EZ Paint Making Kit. This innovative tool allows contractors—and in the near future, consumers—to create as little as one ounce of paint directly from the same product they will use for their project. The kit is designed to work seamlessly with the color isolation techniques central to the Cassidy Color System. Instead of relying on inaccurate chips or samplers, users can now purchase a blank gallon of paint (containing no colorant) and extract just one ounce using a syringe. This small amount can be tinted to create a perfect sample that accurately represents the final color, ensuring environmental consciousness and time savings.
This method is unique to the Cassidy Color System. Unlike traditional methods, which often result in disappointing mismatches between the chip, sampler, and final paint product to be used. Our system guarantees accuracy by allowing for real-time sample creation. This approach not only saves resources but also provides an unparalleled level of precision in color matching.
The Cassidy Color System utilizes larger boards—20x30-inch PVC boards, for instance—to isolate the color in a way that allows the viewer to see it in its purest form, free from the influence of surrounding hues. The system provides these larger boards as backdrops for smaller color boards or cards, creating a focused viewing experience. By either taping the smaller boards onto the larger ones using blue tape or sticky Velcro dots, the color is isolated, allowing for a clearer and more accurate perception. This method can be employed by homeowners, decorators, and designers, who can be trained through our future online resources such as YouTube videos or documentation provided on our website. This is part of the Road Map page.
In conjunction with the EZ Paint Making Kit, this method ensures that the color you select is the color you get, without the uncertainty that often accompanies traditional sampling and paint selection processes.
The Cassidy Color System excels in the direct creation of paint products tailored to the consumer's needs. Traditional methods often involve selecting a chip, purchasing a sampler, and finally buying the paint, only to discover that the final color doesn’t match the original selection. Our system streamlines this process by eliminating unnecessary steps. By using our EZ Paint Making Kit, you can produce an accurate sample directly from the blank gallon, ensuring that the color you choose is the color you apply.
Unlike other systems, such as Samplize.com—which provides 9x14-inch samples in only one sheen (eggshell)—the Cassidy Color System allows for the immediate creation of a sample in the exact finish and product you intend to use, be it flat, eggshell, satin, or semi-gloss. This direct-to-product approach ensures that you get an accurate representation of the final result, saving time, money, and frustration.
The Cassidy Color System offers a complete solution from start to finish. Whether you are a homeowner embarking on a DIY project, a designer working on a large-scale renovation, or a contractor responsible for multiple properties, the Cassidy Color System ensures that you achieve the exact color you want, in the finish you need, without the hassle of traditional methods. Our future plans are to supply all the materials necessary to implement our system, including larger boards and color cards, and offer training through online resources.
Additionally, our approach is not just about selecting color—it’s about creating a product that matches what you’ve selected, ready for immediate use in your project. This eliminates the traditional sequence of choosing a chip, moving to a sampler, and then purchasing the paint, which often leads to disappointment. With the Cassidy Color System, we guarantee that what you see is what you’ll get, streamlining the process and ensuring a perfect match every time.
Another innovative aspect of the Cassidy Color System is our proprietary algorithms, which are also patent pending. These algorithms power HistoricHomeColors.com, enabling the precise reproduction of historic colors, as well as the creation of any popular or custom color needed. This technology allows us to offer an extensive range of colors with unparalleled accuracy, further enhancing the capabilities of the Cassidy Color System.
The Cassidy Color System is essential for anyone serious about achieving the perfect color for their project. Whether you are using our EZ Paint Making Kit, ordering historic colors, or having us create colors on-site, the Cassidy Color System is the backbone of our service, ensuring that the colors you choose are exactly what you envision.
By integrating traditional color selection techniques with cutting-edge tools and environmentally conscious practices, the Cassidy Color System is poised to revolutionize the way people see, choose, and purchase architectural paint. This system, with its focus on accuracy, efficiency, and environmental responsibility, will redefine the industry for decades to come.