Paint Can

Paint Can
Basic Information
Released:	Mann-Conomy Update
Availability:	Purchase, Drop, Uncrate (All series)
Tradable:	Yes
Giftable:	Yes
Craftable:	No
Available Qualities
Unique
Loadout Stats
Paint Can 1 - 100 Used to paint other items. This is a limited use item. Uses: 1

“

Well, I'll be stuffed! Click to listen — The Sniper on recolored hats

”

Paint Cans are tool items that allow you to change the color scheme of hats. Paint is available in 21 different colors, however only 13 colors are available though the Mann Co. Store. The rest of the colors may only be found via the Item Drop System or by opening various Crates.

Hats can have their paint removed, restoring them to their original color. In doing so, however, the Paint Can will not be returned to the player.

Valve has stated via the Steam forums that there are plans to implement painting with weapons, but current development priority rests on increased player interest.

The "Team Spirit" paint can changes the painted item's color depending on the player's team. The listed price for "Team Spirit" is currently as opposed to the regular . It cannot be obtained via random drops, however it is found in Crate series #7.

The "Pink as Hell", "A Color Similar to Slate", "Drably Olive", "The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime", "The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants" and "Dark Salmon Injustice" paint cans cannot be bought in the Mann Co. Store and can only be obtained through Crates Series #9.

Paintable item previews

Main article: List of paintable items

Colors

Image	Name	Color	Image	Name	Color
	Template:Status A Color Similar to Slate	#2F4F4F		Template:Status Mann Co. Orange	#CF7336
	Template:Status A Deep Commitment to Purple	#7D4071		Template:Status Muskelmannbraun	#A57545
	Template:Status A Distinctive Lack of Hue	#141414		Template:Status Noble Hatter's Violet	#51384A
	Template:Status Aged Moustache Grey	#7E7E7E		Template:Status Peculiarly Drab Tincture	#C5AF91
	Template:Status An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge	#E6E6E6		Template:Status Pink as Hell	#FF69B4
	Template:Status Australium Gold	#E7B53B		Template:Status Radigan Conagher Brown	#694D3A
	Template:Status Color No. 216-190-216	#D8BED8		Template:Status The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime	#32CD32
	Template:Status Dark Salmon Injustice	#E9967A		Template:Status The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants	#F0E68C
	Template:Status Drably Olive	#808000		Template:Status Ye Olde Rustic Colour	#7C6C57
	Template:Status Indubitably Green	#729E42		Template:Status Zephaniah's Greed	#424F3B
80px	Template:Status Team Spirit	#B8383B
		#5885A2

Previous changes

October 6, 2010 Patch

• Hats can now have their paint removed.

November 19, 2010 Patch

• Added Team Spirit paint.

December 2, 2010 Patch

• Fixed an issue where team colored hats were showing up improperly when previewing the Team Spirit paint on them.

December 10, 2010 Patch

• Added 6 new Paint colors. ("Pink as Hell", "A Color Similar to Slate", "Drably Olive", "The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime", "The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants" and "Dark Salmon Injustice").

Bugs

• When using the +quickswitch command to change a users load-out, painted items are not differentiated from regular items; this means that if a user has multiple painted variants of the same hat, all the variants are ignored (they're treated as duplicates) and just one entry appears in the +quickswitch panel.

Trivia

• The "216-190-216" in the name of Color No. 216-190-216 is the RGB representation of the color.
• Zephaniah's Greed is misspelled; it should instead say "Zepheniah's Greed".
• Muskelmannbraun is German for "Muscleman brown".
• Painted items do not work under DirectX 8; they will be the ordinary colored item instead. When running the game under DirectX 8, the item descriptions for the Paint Cans as well as the "carrying" descriptions for other players' painted items will warn you of this fact. Painted items also have red text beneath the item's description stating, "Paint will not be visible on your computer (DX9+ required)".