Paint Can

Paint Can
Basic Information
Released:	Mann-Conomy Update
Availability:	Variable (see below)
Tradable:	Yes
Giftable:	Yes
Craftable:	No
Available Qualities
Unique

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Paint Cans are tool items that allow players to change the color scheme of hats and Miscellaneous items. Not all of the aforementioned items are initially paint-able, but are often made paint-able some time after their release. Paint is available in 27 different colors. Paints are available through out the Mann Co. Store, via the Item Drop System or by opening various Crates. When buying aesthetic items from the Mann Co. Store, buyers may look at painted variants of the accessories they wish to buy.

Hats and Miscellaneous items 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.

There are two types of Paint Cans: single colors and team colors. Items painted with single colors are always the same color, no matter what team the player has joined. Items painted with team colors change colors depending on the player's team. When a player changes teams, the colors on the item change as well.

Paint-able 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 and miscellaneous item 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 colored paints, in which both the RED and BLU versions are displayed).

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

Colors

Single colors
Image	Name	Color	Availability	Image	Name	Color	Availability
	A Color Similar to Slate	#2F4F4F	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		Mann Co. Orange	#CF7336	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
	A Deep Commitment to Purple	#7D4071	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		Muskelmannbraun	#A57545	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
	A Distinctive Lack of Hue	#141414	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		Noble Hatter's Violet	#51384A	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
	Aged Moustache Grey	#7E7E7E	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		Peculiarly Drab Tincture	#C5AF91	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
	An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge	#E6E6E6	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		Pink as Hell	#FF69B4	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
	Australium Gold	#E7B53B	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		Radigan Conagher Brown	#694D3A	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
	Color No. 216-190-216	#D8BED8	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime	#32CD32	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
	Dark Salmon Injustice	#E9967A	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants	#F0E68C	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
	Drably Olive	#808000	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		Ye Olde Rustic Colour	#7C6C57	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
	Indubitably Green	#729E42	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		Zepheniah's Greed	#424F3B	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
Team colors
Image	Name	Color	Availability	Image	Name	Color	Availability
	An Air of Debonair	#654740	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		Team Spirit	#B8383B	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
		#28394D				#5885A2
	Balaclavas are Forever	#3B1F23	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		The Value of Teamwork	#803020	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
		#18233D				#256D8D
	Cream Spirit	#C36C2D	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate		Waterlogged Lab Coat	#A89A8C	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
		#B88035				#839FA3
	Operator's Overalls	#483838	Purchase   Drop   Uncrate
		#384248

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 cans.
  • "A Deep Commitment to Purple", "Aged Moustache Grey", "Australium Gold", "Color No. 216-190-216", "Indubitably Green", "Mann Co. Orange", "Muskelmannbraun", "Noble Hatter's Violet", "Peculiarly Drab Tincture", "Radigan Conagher Brown", "Ye Olde Rustic Colour", "Zephaniah's Greed", "An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge", and "A Distinctive Lack of Hue" were added to the game.
• [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

• Fixed an issue where team-colored hats were showing up improperly when previewing the Team Spirit paint on them.
• Many hats have had their appearance while painted improved. Paintable hats should now appear less like solid blobs of color and retain more of the character and texture of the hat.
• Made the following items paintable: Sergeant's Drill Hat, Pyro's Beanie, Dangeresque, Too?, Whiskered Gentleman, Safe'n'Sound, Trophy Belt, Frenchman's Beret, Camera Beard, Max's Severed Head, Alien Swarm Parasite, Ellis' Cap, and the Horrific Headsplitter.

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 11, 2011 Patch

• Fixed the new Shogun hats not being grayed out when paint is being used.

March 21, 2011 Patch

• Made the Blighted Beak paintable.

April 7, 2011 Patch

• Potato Hat was made paintable.

April 14, 2011 Patch (Hatless Update)

• Fixed bug where DirectX 8 users could not view painted items.

May 3, 2011 [Item schema update]

• The Hetman's Headpiece was made paintable.
• The Janissary Ketche was made paintable.

June 3, 2011 Patch

• The Conjurer's Cowl was made paintable.

June 14, 2011 Patch

• The Superfan, Essential Accessories, and Hero's Hachimaki were made paintable.

June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)

• "An Air of Debonair", "Balaclavas Are Forever", "Cream Spirit", "Operators Overalls", "The Value of Teamwork", and "Waterlogged Labcoat" were added to the game.
• [Undocumented] Fixed painted items that stay on ragdolls losing their custom color upon their owner's death.
• [Undocumented] "A Distinctive Lack of Hue", "An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge", "Pink as Hell", "Dark Salmon Injustice", "The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime", "The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants", "A Color Similar to Slate" and "Drably Olive" were added to the Mann Co. Store.

June 27, 2011 Patch

• Fixed a problem with team paints not being displayed properly when playing

July 1, 2011 Patch

• [Item schema update] Changed spelling of Zephaniah's Greed to Zepheniah's Greed.

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.
• A hat painted with Team Spirit will sometimes turn RED upon falling off the player's head at death, even while on BLU team.
• After the June 23, 2011 Patch, items painted with Team Spirit will sometimes show the RED version of the color, even if the wearer is on the BLU team. It will also cause the entire item to flicker black.
• All Paint Cans added in June 23, 2011 Patch have mixed up cans on their icons: BLU paint in RED can and vice versa.

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".
• The Über Update added several paint cans colors that were sampled off of the existing player models. "The Value of Teamwork" was sampled from the cross on the Medic's backpack, "Water Logged Lab Coat" is from the Medic's coat, "Balaclavas Are Forever" from the Spy's mask, "An Air of Debonair" sampled from the Spy's Suit, "Operator's Overall" was picked from the Engineer's overalls and "Cream Spirit" from the Engineer's hard hat.