Sherwin-Williams

Operated by The Sherwin-Williams Company. United States.

A name and an SW number, e.g. "SW 7008". The most consistent identifier scheme of the twelve — one number, one colour, stable across collections.

What Colourwise can tell you about Sherwin-Williams

Colourwise holds no Sherwin-Williams colour data — no names, no codes, no digital values, no LRVs. The brief singled Sherwin-Williams out as the strongest technical candidate, and on the data that is correct: name, number, RGB, HEX and LRV are all published in structured, stable form. The terms are also the most explicit refusal of the twelve, naming robots, scrapers and spiders directly and restricting all content to personal, non-commercial use. Being the best technical candidate and being unusable are not in tension here; the quality of the data is exactly why it is protected.

For any actual colour value, go to Sherwin-Williams’s own site, which is where the authoritative and current version lives.

The colour system

What a code looks like: SW 7008
Size of the range: Very large, but with an unusually well-structured core numbering system beneath it, which is what makes the range navigable at that size.
Collections: Color Collections
Historic Colors
Emerald
Colormix forecast palettes
Range names only. The colours within them are not reproduced here.
What the manufacturer publishes: Names, SW numbers, collection membership, RGB, HEX and LRV are all published in structured form on the manufacturer's own pages. This is the most complete public colour data of any brand assessed.
Worth knowing: Technically the best-documented catalogue in the sector and, because of that documentation, the most explicitly protected. The terms of use name robots, scrapers and spiders directly.

What is published, and what Colourwise may use

Two separate columns on purpose. A value being visible on a public page says nothing about whether it may be republished — that is what the terms of use decide, and here they say no.

Public availability and rights classification per data field for Sherwin-Williams
Field	Published by Sherwin-Williams	Colourwise may
Colour name	Published	Link or reference only
Colour code or number	Published	Link or reference only
Collection membership	Published	Link or reference only
RGB value	Published	Do not ingest without permission
HEX value	Published	Do not ingest without permission
Light Reflectance Value	Published	Do not ingest without permission
Colour family	Not established	Do not ingest without permission
Undertone description	Not established	Do not ingest without permission
Finish availability	Not established	Link or reference only
Surface and room recommendations	Not established	Do not ingest without permission
The catalogue as a whole	Published	Do not ingest without permission

The rights finding

robots.txt

Disallows `*selectedColorURN=urn:color*`, `*colorSearchTerm*` and `/color-visualization/` — the colour-browsing surfaces specifically.

Reviewed 2026-08-22. robots.txt governs crawling, not reuse.

Terms of use

Prohibits any use of "any robot, scraper, spider, or other automated means to access or gather content from the Websites"; "no Content may be copied, reproduced, modified... distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, or transmitted"; permission extends to viewing, printing and downloading "for personal and noncommercial use only".

Read the terms at source

What would change the answer

A data licence. Sherwin-Williams already produces the structured file internally, so the obstacle is permission rather than extraction — which makes this the highest-value permission request of the twelve.

Colourwise guidance

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