Kit Maker · work out the cheapest set of tubes that still paints it
Kit Maker · work out the cheapest set of tubes that still paints it
A pattern might use 14 colours. Buying 14 tubes is expensive, and some of those colours cover barely any of the canvas. The Kit Maker answers one question: which tubes are actually worth buying, and what do you lose by skipping the rest?
It never mixes paint. Drop a tube and its areas get repainted with the closest tube you kept, straight from the tube — same rule as the rest of the app.
Pick the pattern you just made, or drop in a photo and it generates one first. It reads the colours the pattern actually used and how much canvas each one covers.
One dial. Slide it down and the kit shrinks; the preview beside it gets rougher. You watch the painting degrade in real time and stop where it still looks right to you.
Every colour ranked by how much of the canvas it covers. The ones at the bottom are covering a sliver and are the first to go.
Skip a colour and its zones get the nearest surviving tube instead. Sometimes that is invisible. Sometimes a sky turns the wrong blue.
This section shows, per dropped tube, how far off the replacement is and which zones are affected — so a bad swap is caught before the paint is bought.
Coverage area plus canvas size plus number of coats gives roughly how many millilitres of each colour you need — and therefore whether to buy the small tube or the big one.
Tube prices per size, multiplied out, with a running total as you move the dial in section 2. The point is to see "two fewer tubes saves €18" while deciding.
Final list: colour, product code, tube size, quantity, price. Printable, and matching the numbers on the pattern so the two sheets work together.
Once a set of tubes is bought, it becomes a saved palette. Every future painting can be generated against exactly what is already on the shelf, instead of suggesting colours that would need another trip to the shop.
Sketch only — no working code on this page.