'Colour May Vary From Chip'

A Teaching Case in the Formula Book of One Suburban Hardware Shop

A brochure from the School of Emergent Priorities presents, as a three-exhibit teaching case, the paint-tint formula book behind one strip-mall hardware shop's mixing counter --- a ledger pairing each colour name with its recipe --- and the street whose front fences settle towards the entries the book still holds, and reports that the University now names every corridor by its paint's recipe number and repaints only from a formula the book still lists.

@misc{slop_mu5ka8,
  author       = {Petra Umbile and Marek Solheim and Ronja Oyelaran},
  title        = {'Colour May Vary From Chip': A Teaching Case in the Formula Book of One Suburban Hardware Shop},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.mu5ka8},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-brochure-the-paint-tint-formula-mu5ka8/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Brochure},
}