Rest assured though, because whether you choose to go with Kandy Apple Red over Solar Gold, or over Orion Silver, or over the countless other options, the result will be a custom paint job that only authentic House of Kolor products can produce. If you've ever seen a House of Kolor Color Chart, you noticed the amount of options to choose from. Candy Apple Red Paint isn't a color, but a range of colors The color of the foundation, brilliancy of the metallic, even size of the flake can have a drastic effect on the final color. In a Candy paint job, the ground coat, or basecoat, is vitally important to the color outcome. It's the combination of transparency and depth that makes a candy's effect unachievable in any other product.īut wait, that means.
But with candies, the light passes through the topcoat all the way to the ground coat and reflects back out, carrying the reflection of the dye with it. When light shines on a painted surface, it reaches the pigment and reflects the color. Candy, on the other hand, uses dyes, which allows the resins to remain transparent. It's through this suspension that the paint gets its opacity, or body, and the ability to cover a surface. Automotive paint, even custom paint, is made of grounded pigments that suspend themselves in a resin base.
Doesn't sound like much, but it is in fact this transparency that allows candies to be distinguishable from all other paints on the market. What is Kandy Paint?Ĭandy (or Kandy) is a transparent base mixed with a urethane dye. What separates this candy from all the others on the market is the durability, resistance and vibrancy only House of Kolor can offer.īut before we go any further, let's address a few questions I get a lot of. House of Kolor Kandy Apple Red has been a staple of the HOK line of products since its founding in 1956.