Ron, I don't know if you checked this; but the Awlgrip brochure used to have "holes" in the samples because the eye plays tricks with the samples. I've seen people paint their boat with a lighter blue than the "dark blue" that they expected.

Recently, I had a patch done. The painter said that he used the same blue that should have matched. It's a slight but irritating difference. Awlgripe didn't uses to have any problem "out of the can" with matches. I don't know if it was a transitory issue -- but it's the standard dark blue that we were trying to match.