Best GT5 Paint Chips

[jjablowski]

Thread notes:

1. If you're curious about what a paint chip on my list looks like, feel free to ask and I'll send it to you to try out when I get a chance.
2. This ranking is based entirely on my opinion. Feel free to peacefully disagree.
3. You're welcome to post photographs of cars with your favorite paint chips in this thread.

I'm not a big fan of the paint chip system since the color choices are highly limited, a lot of the colors I like are the hardest to find in the UCD, and you can only use a paint chip once. I heard GT6 is going to have the exact same system as GT5, so I'm not really happy about that.

With that being said, these are my favorite paint chips in GT5:

Ananasgelb
Arancio Argos
Autumn Bronze Metallic
Avorio
Baltic Blue
Boston Green
Brilliant Sky Metallic
Butternut Yellow
Callaway Special Yellow
Champion Blue
Champion Yellow 4
Chili Red
Chrome Orange
Cybergreen Metallic
Electric Orange
Estoril Blue
Eternal Blue Pearl
Europablau
Frash Green
French Blue
Hugger Orange
Imperial-Blue Metallic
Iris Blue Pearl
Jazzblue Perleffekt
Lance Blue
Lava Orange Pearlescent
Lightning Yellow
Lime Green
Millenium Yellow
Mist Green
Monaco Orange
Nogaro Blue Pearl Effect
Papaya Orange
Phoenix Blue
Phoenix Red Solid
Sublime
Sunshine Yellow
Tropic Green
Yukon Yellow​

And here are my honorable mentions (colors that are pretty nice, but not nice enough that I would consider them favorites):

Appletree Green
Aqua Blue Titan Pearl Metallic
Arancia Atlas
Arden Blue Pearl
Ardenblau
Astoria Green Metallic
Atlantic Blue Pearl
Aurora Nuvola Iridescente
Azzurro Acqua Marina
Bahama Yellow
Barcelona Orange Pearl
Black-Eye Pueple Metallic
Blaze Red
Bleu Santorin
Blu
Blu Medio
Blu Victoria
Blue
Blue Sapphire
Bordeaux Pontevecchio
Botanical Green Metallic
Brilliant Blue
California Safe Metallic
Calypso Red
Canal Blue Metallic
Canary Yellow Mica
Carnival Yellow
Circuit Blue Pearl
Colmarblau
Competition Yellow Mica
Cranberry Red
Cyberia Blue
Daytona Blue Pearl Metallic
Devil
Ember Red
Enzia Blau
Exceed Blue Metallic
Forest Green Metallic
Gold Poly
Gran Turismo Red Metallic
Greencollection Perleffekt
Hemi-Orange
Honey Yellow
Imola Yellow
Imperial Blue
India-Gelb
Iris Red Pearl
Issel Blue Pearl
Jaguar Racing Green
Jetstream Blue Metallic Tintcoat
Laser Blue
Light Coffee
Lime Green Metallic
London Green Pearl
Mariana Blue Pearl
Mariner Blue
Mark IV Red
Mark IV Red Clearcoat
Misty Blue Metallic
Naples Yellow
New Formula Red
Oasis Green
Pathfinder Blue Pearlescent
Pirolgelb
Polarmeerblau
Puplish Blue
Purplish Blue Mica Metallic
Reflex Blue
Rising Blue Metallic
Rosso Corallo
Royal Navy Blue Pearl
RX-8 Yellow
Samba Green Pearl
Sunshine Yellow
Super Bright Yellow
Taiga Metallic
Technoblau Perleffekt
Torch Red
Toucan Yellow
Tropic Green
Wine Red Metallic
York Green​

What paint chips do you prefer the most? Do you prefer solid, metallic, chrome, matte, or color shift? Do you prefer "realistic" car colors that you'll commonly see on the streets today, classic car colors, or flashy colors that you'll only see on tuners? Do you buy multiples of your favorite cars and paint them every color possible, like I do?

 

[ImmalovemaGTR]

I do not prefer any "class" of paint chip, it depends on the car and his function... for example, I have a Nissan 240 for drifting which is Matte Light Green. On the other side I left the silver colour on my decent-tuned TT 2007. As I said, it depends on the car.

If I only look at the colour, my favourites are:
Lightning Yellow (99 Skyline GT-R)
Serengeti Sand (2006 G35 Coupe)
M.N.P II and M.N.P III (From the Skylines, you know)
Champion Blue (1996 Skyline LM)
Ultimate Opal Black (2009 SpecV)
Phoenix Gelb (BMW M3 2004)
Sepang Bronze (M5)
Viper Very Orange (guess)
Atomic Orange (2009 Corvette)
Titanium Gray (I think that is the name)(2007 GeeDee-Arr)
Brilliant White Pearl (again, 2007 GT-R)
Feuerwehrrot (300 SL)
aaaand that violet colour from the 2005 Cooper S

 

[IN5AN3 DR1FT]

I tend to look for colours like, steam punk brassy colours and dark reds.

 

[Ryk]

I like the way the UK version has Paint Crisps in various colours.

Favourites?

Mazoria Seyfert
Roadkill Red (Matte Dark Red)

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Probably not the best system for painting cars, but it is different/silly quirky.
Often it is an oddball colour you remember most.

Beans
Top Banana

And, of course, Light Grey Metallic. How can you live without that one.

 

[Dan]

Best blue in GT5: Tonic Blue Metallic. It's a Honda chip, but I don't know which car(s) it belongs to.

 

[tronrider345]

Rio Yellow Pearl !!!

And all Gran Turismo Metalic paints (from Mazda Furai)

 

[GT5Redsucker23]

I really like the yellow paint chip (forgot the name) you get when you buy the 370 Z also the matte black paint you get with the Lexus LFA looks good too.

 

[Lock2Lock]

Best blue in GT5: Tonic Blue Metallic. It's a Honda chip, but I don't know which car(s) it belongs to.

That's a good example of the blue.

The Black Sapphire Metallic and Sapphire metallic is a good one too.

Really dark blue, and looks black in certain light.

 

[Dan]

That's a good example of the blue.

There's barely any cars it doesn't look good on. I just want to know what Honda it comes on. Is there a GT5 paint chip index which lists the paint chip names for all cars?

 

[Lock2Lock]

There's barely any cars it doesn't look good on. I just want to know what Honda it comes on. Is there a GT5 paint chip index which lists the paint chip names for all cars?

Not that I know of.
That would take a while to make. I may do it sometime. Another thing the hybriding tools are good for.

 

[Ridox2JZGTE]

Azure Blue - one of my favourite :

Radiance Red Pearl :

Pacific Blue :

 

[jlbmel]

There's barely any cars it doesn't look good on. I just want to know what Honda it comes on. Is there a GT5 paint chip index which lists the paint chip names for all cars?

Search for the thread "GT5 Colour Database" for a spreadsheet that lists cars and colors.

 

[Dan]

Search for the thread "GT5 Colour Database" for a spreadsheet that lists cars and colors.

Thanks!

I just found the car. The Honda City Turbo II '83.

Of all the frigging cars in the game...

 

[Rayzah]

Bostongrun Metallic
Hibiscus Red Pearl
Pheonixgelb Metallic

My top three 👍

 

[HuskyGT]

I used to be an "all painted in Black or silver" guy, but I've become more open towards colors. Especially these:

-Any medium metallic blue that resembles Interlagos Blue from BMW
-Tornado Rot from VW
-Dark Metallic Red from the DLC Paint pack (looks epic on the Viper SRT/10 coupe)
-Papaya Orange from Audi
-Some Maziora colors like the Mazeran (which looks beautiful in the TVR Tuscan).
-Metallic Plum Crazy. (looks awesome in Lambos, especially the Aventador)

 

[dan_s905]

reflex spice

 

[dan_s905]

ithaca verde

 

[Dry7123]

Melbourne rot
Gun metal black
Plum crazy
Thor red
Hemi orange
Paprika
Sterling silver
Anthracite metallic
Dandellion yellow
Le mans blue
Midnight purple 2

 

[robrabbitman]

Bianco Canopus
Canyon Red
Championship White
Classic Red
Deepblue Perleffekt
French Blue
Innocent Blue Mica
Glacier Blue Metallic
Grabber Blue
Java
Lagunaseca Blau
Laser Blue
Milano Red
Mint Opal Metallic
Monte Carlo Blue Pearl
Plum Crazy
Rising Blue Metallic
Rosso Corsa
Silver Chrome (For wheels)
Sublime
Suzukagrau Metallic
Verde Ithaca
Whitest White

These are most of my favorites. Might have missed a few. But I'll agree with the OP that most of those paint colors are some of the nicest in the game.

 

[GTP_CargoRatt]

There's barely any cars it doesn't look good on. I just want to know what Honda it comes on. Is there a GT5 paint chip index which lists the paint chip names for all cars?

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=165958

 

[timbomat1]

Most of my favourite colours have already been mentioned - just throwing in Vert Hurlevent from Citroen. Looks good on most cars in my opinion.​

 

[SVPSkins]

Need some help.

Can anyone tell what this green is?

i love this tone of green on my F430 but cant remember the name, as i dont have Gt5 on my PS3 any more i can't go and look. I'd like it again for my GT6 F430

EDIT: Think its called "Almond Green" but don't were i got it from.

 

[Tim Voak]

Can anyone tell what this green is? Think its called "Almond Green" but don't were i got it from.

Almond Green is from Aston Martin DB9.

My favorite colors:
Grenadier Red
Cityrot Metallic
Ascari Red Pearl
Rabiata Red Pearl
Nightfire Red Pearl
Raspberry Red Pearl
Electric Orange
Sparkling Orange
Spicy Orange Mica
Rio Yellow Pearl
Aqua Metallic
California Sage
Mistral Green Metallic
Sparkle Green Metallic
Bleu Metallise
Starry Blue Mica
Blue Fire Metallic
Blue Non Metallise
Winning Blue Metallic
Black-Eye Purple Metallic

Wheels:
Serengeti Sand
Chamonix White
Silver Mica Metallic
Silica Breath Metallic

 

[2_FAST_4_U]

My fav greens are on the Astons. Correct-o Mund-o Tim ... that one on the above photo is the Almond. Here's the "Viridian Green" on the other DLC Aston 12. Haven't seen it anywhere else...

 

[ShphrdOfFire]

Its the Honda City Turbo