FEDERAL STANDARD 595 PAINT COLORS

Chassis Plans is a recognized leader in manufacturing fully configured turn-key industrial rackmount computer systems for the industrial, rugged, and military markets. We domestically manufacture 1U to 6U ATX and Single Board Computer rackmount systems tailored exactly to customer application requirements. We also manufacture a full line of industrial and military rack mount and panel mount LCD display monitors and LCD keyboard drawers.

Chassis Plans specializes in long-life product support offering unmatched in-house custom rackmount computer design, long-life industrial motherboards and Single Board Computers with strict revision control and material obsolescence management for trouble free program deployment. Key military customers include companies such as L3, Lockheed, and Northrop Grumman. Notable commercial customers include Siemens, Nikon, & General Electric. Chassis Plans' Systems are Engineered to Perform!®

Federal Standard 595 Paint Spec

To purchase the Fed-Std-595 Specification, Fan Decks, or Paint Chips, contact:

Federal Standard 595C Specification Commerce Site
(www.fed-std-595.com)
Fed-Std-595C Fan Decks, Fan Books, Specs, Paint Chips for Sale

Please do not call us at Chassis Plans regarding either the
FED STD 595 Spec or sources for paint. We do not sell the specs,
chips, or fan decks and we do not sell paint.

Contact your paint manufacturer such as Cardinal or Sherwin Williams
for paint or additional information on paint availability in
Federal Standard 595C colors or to purchase paint. This is the
only information we have and cannot help you otherwise for samples,
paint chips, fan books or paint.

See Fed-Std-595.com for specs, fan decks, etc.

The following FED-STD-595 information is provided to Chassis Plans' customers to help them with paint selection for having a chassis painted a custom color.

The colors in the Federal Standard 595 set have no official names, just five-digit numbers.  The 595C Specification Book does include some generic names, but in many cases the same name has been used for multiple colors.  FED-STD-595 colors should ALWAYS be specified by a 5-digit number.

The first figure can be 1,2 or 3 and indicates the level of sheen:

• 1 = gloss (minimum 80)
• 2 = semi gloss (30-45)
• 3 = matt, flat, or lusterless (maximum 6)

The second figure of FS code indicates a general color classification group;

The remaining figures (third to fifth) provide a 3-digit number representing approximate intensity. Lower values generally indicate a darker color, higher values are typically lighter color. The numbers have been assigned with gaps to allow addition of new colors. Fed-Std-595 is a color collection, not a complete color system, and this has the following implications:

• The existence of a color chip 1xxxx in the FS Fan Deck doesn't imply that there is a color chip for 2xxxx or 3xxxx.  In fact, the vast majority of shades only have chips for 1 or 2 gloss levels
• There can be small differences in shading between chips with different gloss levels, making the creation of "virtual chips" for numbers not defined in FED-STD-595 set a very dangerous practice.  This can be seen by comparing the RGB values below for 10045, 20045 and 30045, which were derived by measuring actual chips.  Variations are obvious, which is typical.  To assume that 20032, if it existed, would be exactly the same color as 10032 is not valid.
• All color numbers in FED-STD-595C, with Change Notice 1 applied, are listed below.  If a color number is not listed below, it is not part of FED-STD-595C.  (All colors in 595B and 595A are included in 595C.)
• FED-STD-595C is not extensible, i.e. it does not allow impuning new colors from the existing ones. If comparing RLM colors to FS-595 codes, for example, one can only refer to the nearest existing FS-595 color, which most often isn't a perfect match. In practice, the FS-set set is extensive enough to find a good-enough match for almost any color.
  
  

How To Request the Spec, Fan Deck, or Paint Chips

You can purchase the Fed-Std-595 Spec, Fan Deck, and Paint Chips from:

Federal Standard 595 Specification Commerce Site
(www.fed-std-595.com)

Please do not call Chassis Plans for assistance with any Fed Std 595 issues unless you have questions about purchasing custom painted computer systems from us.

This color chart, and the associated RGB values, are provided as a courtesy to our customers for general reference purposes.  While we have tried to get as close as possible, understand that variations between monitors, along with monitor adjustments, video card differences and software resident on your computer can all have a significant impact on the colors actually displayed.

Furthermore, many of the colors in FED-STD-595 cannot be accurately displayed on a computer monitor because they lie outside the aRGB color space used for PCs.  We've shown the "correct" RGB values for these out-of-gamut colors below and marked them in red.  (For the color samples displayed, we clipped all RGB values to a range of 0-255.)

You may be tempted to print what is on the screen for a color sample, but the "color enhancement" built into most printer drivers will just compound the errors, and the result is likely be so far off as to be unsuitable for almost any purpose. 

If you need an exact reference for a FED-STD-595 color, use a color chip.  Fan Decks are also very close, but they are not approved for QC or Inspection purposes.