Paintbox Studio, a Working Palette for Real Tubes of Paint

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The tool separates material inventory from color planning: painters can mark tubes as owned, then constrain shared palettes and recipes to that set. Its reference catalogue is described as manufacturer-aware, with stable paint codes, formulation records, and aliases, while screen swatches are explicitly treated as approximations of mass tone. A browser-side reference-image workflow offers overlay previews for different planning intents, including Faithful, Limited palette, and Expressive.