Red 03 is a light pink from Lick. As a premium paint, it’s a popular colour to seek out close matches and value-brand alternatives to.
Fruit Fool by Farrow & Ball is the closest match from any other brand (very close) — and it holds Red 03’s lightness, warmth and saturation alike. The closest value-tier option is Mexican Moonlight by Johnstone's (very close), slightly softer. No other brand gets within a near-identical match of Red 03 — it’s one of the more distinctive colours in the library, so expect a visible difference whichever you pick. LRV is estimated from each brand’s swatch, so order testers before committing.
Below is every genuinely close match to Red 03 from the other eight brands — ranked purely by closeness, so where one brand has several near-misses, they all appear. For the single best match per brand, see the Red 03 colour page.
The nearest Dulux colour is Nomadic Glow 2 (close). It won’t be pixel-perfect, so order a tester before committing.
Of the close matches, Mexican Moonlight by Johnstone's is the best-value option (value, very close).
The list shows every genuinely close match from other brands, ranked nearest-first by perceptual colour difference — including several from one brand where they’re all close. Screens differ from paint on a wall, so treat these as a shortlist and always order tester pots.
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See the full Red 03 colour page →