13 paint brands against 1,194 siding colors: which one can repeat yours
The siding is the part of the wall you do not repaint. It arrives colored from the factory, it stays that color for as long as it is on the house, and everything painted around it, the trim, the fascia, the door, the shutters, has to answer to it.
So the practical question is not whether paint can repeat a siding color. It is which brand can, because you do not buy paint from the market, you buy it from one store, out of one brand's range.
The short answer: American siding comes in 1,194 distinct colors from 10 manufacturers, and only 701 of them look different on a wall. That smaller number is the real size of your choice. On the paint side there are 13 brands and 20,052 colors to match them against.
Then, for every one of the 1,194 siding colors, we asked each paint brand for its nearest color and kept only matches close enough to read as the same color on a facade.
What each paint brand covers
Each number is how many of the 1,194 siding colors that brand can repeat closely enough to pass on a wall.
| Paint brand | Siding colors it can repeat | Share of siding colors |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Moore | 926 | 78% |
| Behr | 902 | 76% |
| Glidden | 901 | 75% |
| Valspar | 869 | 73% |
| Sherwin-Williams | 816 | 68% |
| PPG | 806 | 68% |
| Jotun | 688 | 58% |
| Dunn-Edwards | 605 | 51% |
| Sto | 376 | 31% |
| Farrow & Ball | 215 | 18% |
| Cabot | 140 | 12% |
| Flood Wood Finishes | 48 | 4% |
| Olympic | 37 | 3% |
The spread from top to bottom is twenty-five to one. That is not a ranking of paint quality, and it should not be read as one: the brands at the bottom have small or specialized color ranges by design. Farrow & Ball publishes a deliberately short, curated palette. Cabot, Flood and Olympic are wood-finish lines, built for stain and clear-coat work rather than for matching a factory-colored panel. Asking them to cover the siding range is asking them to do a job they were never built for.
The answer almost never depends on the siding
Read the same measurement the other way round and the useful part appears.
Of the 1,194 siding colors, 1,131 can be repeated by two or more brands and 41 by exactly one. Only 22 have no paint twin at all in any of the 13 paint brands, mostly saturated blues and a handful of deep greens and grays that the paint side simply does not carry outdoors.
So 1,172 of 1,194 siding colors, over 98%, are matchable by somebody. Whether your siding color is matchable is essentially settled before you start. Whether it is matchable at the store you are standing in is not settled at all, and that is where the decision actually lives.
This inverts how the choice is usually made. People pick the siding, then walk into a paint store and start hunting. The measurement says the store comes first: choosing Benjamin Moore or Behr leaves you roughly three-quarters of the siding colors to work with; choosing a wood-finish line leaves you a few dozen colors, and no amount of hunting inside that brand will produce the rest.
What to do with this before you order
- Settle the siding color first. It is the fixed element, and paint is the flexible one. Reversing that order means asking the panel to chase a paint chip it may not have.
- Then pick the brand, not the chip. If the trim color matters to you and you have not committed to a paint brand, start with one of the six brands that cover two-thirds of the siding colors or more. That single choice does more to protect the scheme than any individual chip.
- Ask for the code, not the name. Color names are marketing and change between seasons; the code is what the mixing machine reads.
- Check the profile, not just the color. A color listed in a siding line is not automatically available in every profile of that line. Manufacturers publish the color and the line, not always the combination, so confirm the exact panel with the supplier before ordering.
For the color-by-color direction of this question, which specific chip matches a given panel, see siding colors matched to paint. That page answers "what is the nearest chip"; this one answers "how much of the siding range this brand can reach at all".
See it at full scale before you commit
A number on a table is a shortlist, not a decision. Color intensifies over a large area, outdoor light exposes undertones a chip never showed, and the texture of lap siding catches light differently from a smooth sample. All four effects only resolve on the actual wall.
Both designs below are real GetFacade results made on homeowners' own photos. The first started as an old, weathered log house, previewed in pale horizontal siding with white trim around every window.
The second started as a bare block shell, previewed in warm wood-look vertical siding with black trim.
From the scheme to a wall a crew can build
Choosing the look is half the job. The other half is turning it into work a crew can quote. When a design wins, GetFacade gives your contractor the renders from your own photos, the materials list behind the design, and a PDF plan with step-by-step notes. The estimate covers materials and labor for your region, so the first quote conversation starts from real numbers.
More on siding and paint colors
Choosing and matching colors:
- How to choose an exterior paint color: the constraint-first method, body, trim and accent in order.
- Exterior paint colors for a brown roof: the most common fixed constraint, with real codes.
- Siding colors matched to paint: the closest paint chip for a given siding color, across three paint brands.
- Why your siding color looks different from the sample: scale, light, context and texture, measured rather than assumed.
- James Hardie colors on your own house: palette, profiles and what a rendering settles.
The wider flow:
- AI exterior house design: how the whole flow works, from photos to designs, estimate, and contractor documents.
- Curb appeal visualizer: smaller street-view upgrades, especially before selling.
Or start from the GetFacade homepage and check pricing.