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— The Soldier on paint misunderstanding See? Red! Oh, wait... that's blood. ”

The Paint Can is a tool that allows players to change the coloring of most cosmetic items. Paint Cans are available in 29 different colors, and can either be purchased from the Mann Co. Store, found via the item drop system, obtained by opening Mann Co. Supply Crates, using a Mann Co. Painting Set, or acquired through the Trading system.

Two types of Paint Cans exist; single-colored and team-colored. Items painted with single-color paints retain the appearance of one color regardless of the player's team, whereas a team-colored paint will switch between RED and BLU variant colors.

Paint can be removed from an item to restore it to its default color by selecting the item in the Backpack and clicking 'Restore'. However, the paint used on the item will not be returned to the player.

The Mann Co. Painting Set can be used to receive up to three single-color paints.

Demonstration

Paintable item previews

The following pages display previews of items painted with Paint Cans. Hover over any image to display the name of the paint that was used.

Note: Images may not exactly match the examples depicted here, as in-game lighting conditions may vary. For team-colored items, the RED model skin has been used, meaning that the painted item may appear differently when worn on the BLU team (with the exception of team-colored paints, in which both the RED and BLU versions are displayed).

List of unpaintable items

The following cosmetic items cannot have paint applied to them using Paint Cans.

† Indicates an item that is set for paint to be applied, but the ability is disabled.





Colors

Single colors Picture Name Color Availability Picture Name Color Availability A Color Similar to Slate HEX #2F4F4F RGB 47 79 79 Purchase Drop Uncrate Indubitably Green HEX #729E42 RGB 114 158 66 Purchase Drop Uncrate A Deep Commitment to Purple HEX #7D4071 RGB 125 64 113 Purchase Drop Uncrate Mann Co. Orange HEX #CF7336 RGB 207 115 54 Purchase Drop Uncrate A Distinctive Lack of Hue HEX #141414 RGB 20 20 20 Purchase Drop Uncrate Muskelmannbraun HEX #A57545 RGB 165 117 69 Purchase Drop Uncrate A Mann's Mint HEX #BCDDB3 RGB 188 221 179 Purchase Drop Uncrate Noble Hatter's Violet HEX #51384A RGB 81 56 74 Purchase Drop Uncrate After Eight HEX #2D2D24 RGB 45 45 36 Purchase Drop Uncrate Peculiarly Drab Tincture HEX #C5AF91 RGB 197 175 145 Purchase Drop Uncrate Aged Moustache Grey HEX #7E7E7E RGB 126 126 126 Purchase Drop Uncrate Pink as Hell HEX #FF69B4 RGB 255 105 180 Purchase Drop Uncrate An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge HEX #E6E6E6 RGB 230 230 230 Purchase Drop Uncrate Radigan Conagher Brown HEX #694D3A RGB 105 77 58 Purchase Drop Uncrate Australium Gold HEX #E7B53B RGB 231 181 59 Purchase Drop Uncrate The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime HEX #32CD32 RGB 50 205 50 Purchase Drop Uncrate Color No. 216-190-216 HEX #D8BED8 RGB 216 190 216 Purchase Drop Uncrate The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants HEX #F0E68C RGB 240 230 140 Purchase Drop Uncrate Dark Salmon Injustice HEX #E9967A RGB 233 150 122 Purchase Drop Uncrate Ye Olde Rustic Colour HEX #7C6C57 RGB 124 108 87 Purchase Drop Uncrate Drably Olive HEX #808000 RGB 128 128 0 Purchase Drop Uncrate Zepheniah's Greed HEX #424F3B RGB 66 79 59 Purchase Drop Uncrate Team colors Picture Name Color Availability Picture Name Color Availability An Air of Debonair HEX #654740 RGB 101 71 64 Purchase Drop Uncrate Team Spirit HEX #B8383B RGB 184 56 59 Purchase Drop Uncrate HEX #28394D RGB 40 57 77 HEX #5885A2 RGB 88 133 162 Balaclavas Are Forever HEX #3B1F23 RGB 59 31 35 Purchase Drop Uncrate The Value of Teamwork HEX #803020 RGB 128 48 32 Purchase Drop Uncrate HEX #18233D RGB 24 35 61 HEX #256D8D RGB 37 109 141 Cream Spirit HEX #C36C2D RGB 195 108 45 Purchase Drop Uncrate Waterlogged Lab Coat HEX #A89A8C RGB 168 154 140 Purchase Drop Uncrate HEX #B88035 RGB 184 128 53 HEX #839FA3 RGB 131 159 163 Operator's Overalls HEX #483838 RGB 72 56 56 Purchase Drop Uncrate HEX #384248 RGB 56 66 72

Notes: The availability column shows the standard conditions. Any special, time-limited promotions that may be occurring in the Mann Co. Store are not and should not be included.





Bugs

When using the +quickswitch command to change a user's loadout, painted items are not differentiated from regular items; this means that if a user has multiple painted variants of the same cosmetic, all the variants are ignored (+quickswitch only shows one entry per item to prevent duplicates taking excessive space) and just one entry appears in the +quickswitch panel.

Trivia

In late 2010, Valve had entertained the idea of extending the Paint Can feature to weapons. [1]

The "216-190-216" paint is a reference to the RGB representation of the hue.

Muskelmannbraun is the German word for "muscleman brown".

The Über Update added several Paint Can colors that were sampled from the existing player models. "The Value of Teamwork" was sampled from the cross on the Medic's backpack, "Waterlogged Lab Coat" from the Medic's coat, "Balaclavas Are Forever" from the Spy's mask, "An Air of Debonair" from the Spy's suit, and "Operator's Overalls" from the Engineer's overalls.

"Team Spirit" is based on the team-colored parts of the class icons, while "Cream Spirit" is based on the orange and yellow coloring on the class icons.

"Balaclavas Are Forever" is a reference to the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever . A balaclava is the type of mask the Spy wears.

. A balaclava is the type of mask the Spy wears. The backpack image for the brown paint can (which can be seen on Mann Co. Catalog) is a screenshot of a brown paint can model. The model was not distributed in the VPK, yet the textures are present.

The paint Zepheniah's Greed is referencing the rich Zepheniah Mann, father of Redmond and Blutarch, the owners of teams RED and BLU, respectively.

The paint After Eight is based on the famous brand of after dinner mint-fondant-filled chocolate-thins called After Eight. The paint hue is identical to the hue of the wrappers for these chocolates. After Eight chocolates were designed for eating after dinner, hence the After Eight (P.M.) name. A Mann's Mint is presumably also based on After Eight Chocolates.



Gallery

Single color paints

In-game paint display for An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge

In-game paint display for Color No. 216-190-216

In-game paint display for Peculiarly Drab Tincture

In-game paint display for Aged Moustache Grey

In-game paint display for A Distinctive Lack of Hue

In-game paint display for After Eight

In-game paint display for Radigan Conagher Brown

In-game paint display for Ye Olde Rustic Colour

In-game paint display for Muskelmannbraun

In-game paint display for Mann Co. Orange

In-game paint display for Australium Gold

In-game paint display for The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants

In-game paint display for Dark Salmon Injustice

In-game paint display for Pink as Hell

In-game paint display for A Deep Commitment to Purple

In-game paint display for Noble Hatter's Violet

In-game paint display for A Color Similar to Slate

In-game paint display for Zepheniah's Greed

In-game paint display for Drably Olive

In-game paint display for Indubitably Green

In-game paint display for The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime

In-game paint display for A Mann's Mint

Team color paints

In-game paint display for An Air of Debonair

In-game paint display for Balaclavas Are Forever

In-game paint display for Cream Spirit

In-game paint display for Operator's Overalls

In-game paint display for Team Spirit

In-game paint display for The Value of Teamwork

In-game paint display for Waterlogged Lab Coat

Other

Paint Can texture found in the game's files.

See also