PPG Porter® Paints Launches New Color Sense Game™ 2.0

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PPG Porter® Paints has put a fresh face on the process of selecting the perfect paint color by launching a new version of its Color Sense Game™, available for free at www.voiceofcolor.com. The enhanced color selection tool provides users with an even deeper, more meaningful consideration of colors that are best suited for their personality, style and interests.

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The Color Sense Game 2.0 helps users overcome the overwhelming feeling of having too many choices, and instead offers users their own personal set of colors for paint and other design elements in a room or space. Color Sense narrows down the process to a personal, meaningful collection of colors based on the user's responses. The color program then provides unique 5-color combinations that offer color opportunities for walls, trim, accent areas and home decor (furniture, pillows, window treatments, flooring). It provides homeowners with a starting point for designing around a personality and style, based on a user's five senses and interests.

"Color preferences are unique, and choosing color is a personal exercise. Many times, we're not even aware of why we like a color or how certain colors, when paired together, make us feel. Color Sense helps us reveal our interests and traits, which bring us to a better understanding of why we gravitate to certain colors," said Dee Schlotter, Brand Manager of Color for The Voice of Color. "And homeowners can begin that personal process of color selection with the ease of going online."

According to the Home Improvement Research Institute's 2010 Product Purchase Tracking Study, the Internet is among the most popular resources for DIY painters who have an interest in color. The Color Sense Game helps users gain an understanding of their color preferences on a psychological level through an interactive quiz. Participants of the Color Sense Game respond to a number of questions on color influencers such as emotion, the five senses and core personality.

"One might ask what the touch of baby soft skin or the texture of sand has to do with paint color," said Schlotter. "In fact, feelings stemming from the five senses play a considerable role, and the expansions to the Color Sense game reflect the importance with unique, interactive triggers to stimulate senses."

Simplifying the color selection process, Color Sense Game 2.0 features a fresh visual design and incorporates new questions to narrow a person's color preference. For example, participants are asked to choose a phrase that best inspires them. Answer choices include invigorating, elegant, exotic and comfortable. Other questions include:

• Where would you feel more at home?
• What image is the most appealing to your sense of taste?
• What scent would make you feel good?
• What image is most appealing to your sense of touch?
• Which landscape pleases your sense of sight?
• With which sound track do you connect the most?
• What place seems to be the perfect escape for you?
• What type of animal would you consider yourself to be?
• How would your friends describe you?

The questions are visual and textual, which helps users make instinctual decisions. Some questions are readily connected with home decor asking users to select an appealing decor item, while others lend psychological or abstract perspectives. According to Schlotter, "The results will help owners find their true allegiance to colors and color families, resulting in the harmonies where they will feel most at home and defines their personality."

Preferences identified through the refreshed Color Sense Game reflect a primary and secondary color personality embodied by one of nine PPG Porter Paints Harmony Collection color families. Harmony Collection color families integrate contemporary color schemes in tune with personalities and present-day styles. Color families include the vibrant Desert Spice; earthy Leather, Stone & Wood; and tranquil Water Beads. Each family features a signature color (e.g. orange for Desert Spice, blue for Water Beads), as well as coordinating colors.

And to create a social element to the tool, users can now share their color personality with friends and family using integrated Facebook and Twitter functions within the game. "We know that friends and family are an important resource for homeowners when choosing color. Color Sense 2.0 makes that social aspect even easier," said Schlotter.

The Color Sense Game, is the cornerstone of PPG Porter Paints' The Voice of Color program. The Voice of Color is built on the premise that every color has an emotional association, and individuals are drawn to different colors for reasons inherently tied to their distinctive personalities. The program provides a variety of tools that allow users to find colors that best suit their style.

To learn more, use the Color Sense Game, or view the nine Harmony Color Collection Families, visit www.voiceofcolor.com.

PPG Color Leadership

PPG employs more than 20 color stylists around the world, each specializing in different markets, who collaborate to determine styles and color trends for the home, electronics, and automobiles. PPG's unique position as a color leader in multiple markets allows it to observe and translate emerging global color trends for its customers' applications--from consumer goods to automotive color, from residential to commercial to industrial design.

About The Voice of Color

PPG Porter Paints and PPG Porter Paints developed The Voice of Color program on the premise that every color has an emotional association and that individuals are drawn to different colors for reasons inherently tied to their unique personalities. With more than 2,000 colors to choose from, the program offers their signature five-color decorating color chips to assist homeowners in choosing colors for all the decor elements in their space. The Voice of Color is an integrated, comprehensive design system that offers tools and materials to redefine the world of color. Through an engaging on-line experience, the homeowner can identify their color personality, and find the colors that best suit their style, personality and five senses. Among The Voice of Color elements are the Color Sense Game, yearly color trends, exclusive color families and color palettes -- such as Hacienda Style and Fallingwater® inspired colors -- unique decorating color chips, wet paint sample program, and Web site: www.voiceofcolor.com.

Company Information

PPG Industries' vision is to continue to be the world's leading coatings and specialty products company. Founded in 1883, the company serves customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, PPG operates in more than 60 countries around the globe. Sales in 2009 were $12.2 billion. PPG shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: PPG). For more information, visit www.ppg.com.

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