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See? Red! Oh, wait...that's blood.
The Soldier on recolored hats

Paint Cans are tool items that allow players 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. This can be done in the Backpack by clicking on the item in question and then clicking the Restore button. 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. [1]

The "Team Spirit" Paint 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 and #15.

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

The following pages display previews of items painted with Paint Cans. Hover over any image to display the name of the paint that was used. Popular tendencies for hat coloring can also be viewed at tf2stats.net.

Note: Images may not exactly match the examples depicted here, as in-game lighting conditions may vary. For team-colored items, the RED model skin has been used, meaning that the painted item may appear differently when worn on the BLU team (with the exception of Team Spirit paint, in which both the RED and BLU versions are displayed).

A gallery of in-game pictures of hats, either non-painted, painted or unusual, can be found at TF2Gallery.

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Colors

Image Name Color Availability Image Name Color Availability
Paint Can 2F4F4F.png A Color Similar to Slate #2F4F4F

Pictogram cross.png  Purchase

Pictogram cross.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can CF7336.png Mann Co. Orange #CF7336

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram tick.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can 7D4071.png A Deep Commitment to Purple #7D4071

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram tick.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can A57545.png Muskelmannbraun #A57545

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram tick.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can 141414.png A Distinctive Lack of Hue #141414

Pictogram cross.png  Purchase

Pictogram cross.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can 51384A.png Noble Hatter's Violet #51384A

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram tick.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can 7E7E7E.png Aged Moustache Grey #7E7E7E

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram tick.png  Drop

Pictogram cross.png  Uncrate

Paint Can C5AF91.png Peculiarly Drab Tincture #C5AF91

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram tick.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can E6E6E6.png An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge #E6E6E6

Pictogram cross.png  Purchase

Pictogram cross.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can FF69B4.png Pink as Hell #FF69B4

Pictogram cross.png  Purchase

Pictogram cross.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can E7B53B.png Australium Gold #E7B53B

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram tick.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can 694D3A.png Radigan Conagher Brown #694D3A

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram tick.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can D8BED8.png Color No. 216-190-216 #D8BED8

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram tick.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can 32CD32.png The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime #32CD32

Pictogram cross.png  Purchase

Pictogram cross.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can E9967A.png Dark Salmon Injustice #E9967A

Pictogram cross.png  Purchase

Pictogram cross.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can F0E68C.png The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants #F0E68C

Pictogram cross.png  Purchase

Pictogram cross.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can 808000.png Drably Olive #808000

Pictogram cross.png  Purchase

Pictogram cross.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can 7C6C57.png Ye Olde Rustic Colour #7C6C57

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram tick.png  Drop

Pictogram cross.png  Uncrate

Paint Can 729E42.png Indubitably Green #729E42

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram tick.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

Paint Can 424F3B.png Zephaniah's Greed #424F3B

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram tick.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

80px Team Spirit #B8383B

Pictogram tick.png  Purchase

Pictogram cross.png  Drop

Pictogram tick.png  Uncrate

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Notes: The availability column shows the standard conditions. Any special, time-limited promotions that may be occurring in the Mann Co. Store are not and should not be included.

Update history

September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)

  • Added Paint.
  • [Undocumented] Added message for DirectX 8 users on painted hats that paint will not display correctly on their system.

October 6, 2010 Patch

  • Hats can now have their paint removed.

November 19, 2010 Patch

  • Added Team Spirit paint.

December 2, 2010 Patch

December 10, 2010 Patch

  • [Undocumented] 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").

March 21, 2011 Patch

Bugs

  • Zephaniah's Greed is misspelled; it should instead say "Zepheniah's Greed".
  • 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.
  • Muskelmannbraun is German for "Muscleman brown".
  • Painted items currently 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 the player 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)". However, paint in DX8 is currently being tested in the Team Fortress 2 Beta.

References