The 50% Paint Trick: How Designers Create Custom Blends Using White "Sometimes it looks like a completely different color," says designer Phoebe Howard. Noe Dewitt Picking a paint can be a frustrating affair. You fall in love with a color on a little paint chip, bring it home and paint a square on the wall, and realize it's not quite right. But so close! “Sometimes I can’t find the exact color I want in a paint deck, and I just have this desire to create something else,” says Florida-based designer Phoebe Howard, whose go-to solution is to then “take the color that I