83 colours with a reason to be on it: the brand calls it a best seller, architects keep specifying it, or it leads a forecast. Every one cites its source. Start here before the other twelve thousand.
The whites that carry most Australian houses. Start here for walls, ceilings and trims.
Dulux calls it one of its most popular whites, and it is the white that turns up most in architects' project specs, including five of the 2023 Dulux Colour Awards residential finalists listed by Houzz.
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Dulux names it its most popular paint colour, a cool crisp white that Brisbane architects specify on walls (Hawthorne Siblings, Spring Hill House).
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The ultra-pure white for ceilings and trims, named by six designers in one survey and on both of Dulux's most loved lists.
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A warm white with a long designer following, used inside and out by Vokes and Peters on Teneriffe House in Brisbane and on painted brick at Bondi House.
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Dulux's perennial warm favourite and one of the three whites it says it always comes back to, strongest in older and traditional houses.
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The middle strength of Lexicon, used on walls by Brisbane designer Darren James and paired by Dulux with a Surfmist roof.
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Named the top all-purpose white by five leading Australian designers, usually at half or quarter strength, and specified at 25 percent by Tribe Studio.
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A neutral white on Dulux's popular list that sits in both the 2026 Evoke and 2027 Treasure forecast palettes.
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A neutral white on Dulux's most loved list, used on the exterior of Pop Top by Licht Architecture.
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A warm white on Dulux's popular list and in the 2026 Elemental palette, in line with the move to warmer whites.
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A warm white on Dulux's popular whites page that carries into the 2027 Sensory palette; brand sources only.
Flagged Popular and Best Selling by Porter's, and Brisbane designer Darren James says it is the backdrop to almost every project.
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A warm white with a touch of umber in Porter's Capsule Collection, flagged Popular and Best Selling on its shop.
Number one on Resene's top 20 by sales, and used throughout a house by Brisbane designer Darren James.
Number three on Resene's top 20 by sales; Resene says the Black White family keeps growing.
Number four on Resene's top 20 by sales and the white its consultant leads with for 2026.
Number sixteen and climbing on Resene's top 20, which Resene reads as the move to warmer whites.
The warm white Melbourne designer Adelaide Bragg names as her pick; the sources are from 2017 and 2019.
On Taubmans' best-selling whites list as reported by Home Beautiful, and featured on its own whites page.
On Taubmans' best-selling whites list and marked popular on its own whites page.
Taubmans' White of the Year for 2026, the all-rounder under its Down to Earth palette.
The Haymes white named most often across painter and magazine lists, and kept in its Colours of Australia set.
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Haymes' cool white with a hint of grey, named by Home Beautiful and three trade sources.
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Reported by Home Beautiful as a Haymes best seller in 2022, a soft warm white.
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Haymes' neutral white in Home Beautiful's popular list, carried into Colours of Australia.
Wattyl's much-loved warm white and its suggested trim white, also one of its 2026 Cloud Dancer whites; brand sources only.
Described by Wattyl as a popular cool white and included in its 2026 Cloud Dancer whites; brand sources only.
A white with a hint of grey that Wattyl lists among its five most timeless colours; no sales data given.
On British Paints' own most popular whites list; no independent source found.
On British Paints' own most popular whites list; no independent source found.
On British Paints' own most popular whites list; no independent source found.
Warm greys, greiges and stones for when white is too stark.
A warm greige in the 2027 Sensory palette that two painters, one of them in Brisbane, already list among the most asked-for neutrals.
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A soft neutral that Darren James picks for joinery instead of stark white, and one of the most searched Porter's colours.
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A grey-green stone neutral picked by TLC Interiors for its versatility and on a painter's most searched list.
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A creamy greige, first on Wattyl's list of its five most timeless colours; no sales data given.
A soft clay brown from Taubmans' 2026 Down to Earth palette, picked out by Bunnings Trade.
On British Paints' own most popular neutrals list; no independent source found.
On British Paints' own most popular neutrals list; no independent source found.
The colours that keep turning up on feature walls, joinery and whole rooms.
Taubmans' Colour of the Year for 2026, a calm grey-green, also picked out by Bunnings Trade.
The deep brown in the 2026 Evoke palette that Dulux's Lauren Treloar points to for anchoring a room.
An earthy clay pink from the 2026 Evoke palette, named in Bunnings Trade's 2026 trends piece.
A warm mustard gold from the 2026 Evoke palette, named in Bunnings Trade's 2026 trends piece.
The deep red singled out from the 2027 Treasure palette in news coverage of the forecast.
The warm tan singled out from the 2027 Sensory palette in news coverage of the forecast.
The soft blue singled out from the 2027 Play palette in news coverage of the forecast.
Porter's soft grey-blue, flagged Popular on its shop and named by TLC Interiors and a Melbourne painter.
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A grey-green that reads as a soft neutral, picked by both Darren James and TLC Interiors.
A green that recurs in Haymes forecasts and sits in Home Beautiful's list of popular Haymes colours.
Wall and cladding colours that sit well with a Colorbond roof.
Architects paint weatherboards and brick in it as well as interiors: Hopscotch House and Terrarium House in Brisbane, Surfside House in Sydney.
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A soft warm grey on Dulux's most popular exterior list, its pick for walls under a Monument roof, and now in the 2027 Play palette.
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A grey-beige white on Dulux's most loved list, used on the award-winning exterior of House K by Kart Projects.
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The soft Hamptons grey Dulux pairs with a Surfmist roof and White on White trim, also named by two independent lists.
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A green-beige named for exteriors by Better Homes and Gardens and a painters' top list, in line with the move to greens.
One of two greens drenching Nithsdale by Studio Prineas, the 2026 Dulux Colour Awards exterior winner.
A grey-green Dulux uses as a wall colour in its popular exterior schemes and has put in the 2027 Sensory palette; brand sources only.
A soft cool white that a Wattyl colour consultant calls popular for exteriors; brand voice only.
A warm earthy neutral on Wattyl's timeless list and on a painters' 2025 exterior list.
A bush green in Haymes' Colours of Australia, named for exteriors by two trade lists.
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A Blue Mountains blue-grey from Colours of Australia that leads a painters' 2025 exterior list.
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Trims, eaves, windows and doors.
Dulux's trim white under a Monument roof with Tranquil Retreat walls, the same three a Melbourne painter lists as favourite exterior colours.
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A cool white on Dulux's most loved list that it pairs as the trim with a Surfmist roof and Grey Pail walls.
Charcoals and blacks for cladding, trims and doors.
The paint match to the Monument roof colour, top of Dulux's most popular exterior list and put on cladding and timber by Tribe Studio, Fearns Studio, Licht Architecture and Mihaly Slocombe.
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The black that recurs most in Dulux Colour Awards projects, including the House K and Garden Tower House exteriors.
A soft black on Dulux's most popular exterior list, used for trims and doors and seen in Gloss House by Studio Doherty.
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A deep green-charcoal Dulux uses on exterior walls, named by designer Brendan Wong and used by Darren James in Brisbane.
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The paint match to Colorbond Basalt, used on cladding, louvres and door frames at Hawthorne Siblings in Brisbane by Refresh Design.
The darker of the two greens on Nithsdale by Studio Prineas, the 2026 Dulux Colour Awards exterior winner; named on Dulux's awards page only.
The roof colours most Australian houses are built around.
The most named Colorbond colour across Dulux, roofers and colour consultants, but at solar absorptance 0.73 it is over the 0.64 roof limit that applies in Queensland's climate zones on the simple compliance path.
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The lightest common roof colour (solar absorptance 0.33), first on a Queensland roofer's list and specified by Richards and Spence in Clayfield and Tribe Studio in Sydney.
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A light warm grey (0.44) on Dulux's popular list and two Queensland roofers' lists, specified on Surfside House by Andrew Burges Architects.
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A deep cool grey on Dulux's list and roofers' top fives; at 0.67 it sits just over the 0.64 roof limit.
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A dark grey-green (0.70) on Dulux's list and roofers' lists, used as steel wall cladding on Clayfield House in Brisbane.
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A warm light grey (0.48) on Dulux's most popular exterior list, a compliant middle ground between Surfmist and the darks.
The darkest core grey that still meets the roof limit, at exactly 0.64, and one a Brisbane roofer names as a versatile neutral.
A mid grey at 0.60, under the roof limit, on a Melbourne supplier's popular list.
Black, on Dulux's most popular exterior list, but at 0.95 it is far over the roof limit, so it belongs on gutters, trims and cladding accents.
