There's a number of things here, firstly I'm not wedded to F&B, just the colour. I don't even know if the colour that the post I'm searching for is a F&B one, I'm just trying to find what it was.
Secondly, in my experience the F&B (and pretty much all other) colour charts are about as useful as t*ts on a fish! Here's my rationale on that, se below exhibit's 1,two, three and four. Photo's of the F&B Downpipe in my study as is.
One taken mid room in artificial lighting...
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two taken perpendicular to 1...
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3 taken parallel to 1 but next to a window...
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and four taken below 1 in the same artificial light but obviously lower in the room so less light hitting it.
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As you can see the colour varies dependent on the lighting with the natural light and artificial showing it to be a kind of bluey battleship grey but when the lights are lower it takes on very distinct blue tone which is very much what we like about this particular colour, it looks different almost daily.
I guess to a degree the colour variance in lighting is normal for most paints, BUT below is what the colour purports to be in the F&B colour chart as screenshotted from their website.
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Now, I would have glossed over this colour chart entry without a second glance but it was only when the friend of ours who made the study for us showed us something he'd done in this colour and we liked it did we then note the difference between colour chart and reality...or more correctly, the colour chart one isn't a million miles from pics 1 & 2, but that's with artificial light shining directly onto it, in normality it looks more like pic 4 most of the time and it's that colour/shade difference that isn't noticeable until you see it in proper use.
What we see on a daily basis in more akin to picture 4, which IMO looks little to nothing like the colour chart sample.