Integral color
Pigment (liquid, powder or granular) batched into the mix so it colors the full mass.
- Use case
- New pours: driveways, patios, slabs
- Durability
- High — survives chips and wear
- Price band
- Mid, scales with intensity
How does integral color work?
You order integral color by naming the manufacturer color and the dosage, and the ready-mix plant doses it at the batch plant or the driver adds it at the yard. Dosage is expressed as pounds of pigment per hundredweight of cementitious material, so the same color number lands differently if the mix design changes cement content or swaps in fly ash or slag. Get every truck on one job from the same plant and the same pigment lot, because a mid-pour switch shows up as a visible line you cannot wash out. The most common failure is not the pigment at all: adding water at the site dilutes the paste and lightens that truck, and uneven finishing or curing burnishes some panels darker than others. Efflorescence will also haze a colored slab for the first several months, which reads as fading but is surface salt, not lost pigment.
Named colors
- Adobe
- Autumn Gold
- Baja Red
- Bayou
- Brick Red
- Canyon
- Caramel
- Cliffside Brown
- Cobblestone
- Cocoa
- Dark Gray
- Dune
- Eastern Tan
- Euroblue
- Flagstone Brown
- Granite Red
- Graphite
- Green Slate
- Harvest Gold
- Jet Black
- Kailua
- Lakeside Brown
- Light Gray
- Mesa Buff
- Mesquite
- Miami Buff
- Mocha
- Omaha Tan
- Outback
- Padre Brown
- Palomino
- Pebble
- Pewter
- Plum
- Pueblo Brown
- Roadside Brown
- Rustic Brown
- Salmon
- San Diego Buff
- Sandstone
- Sangria
- Santa Fe
- Sequoia Sand
- Sierra
- Silversmoke
- Southern Blush
- Spanish Gold
- Sunset Rose
- Taupe
- Terra Cotta
- Tile Red
- Willow Green
- Western Gold
- Yosemite Brown
Screen colors are approximate. Obtain a physical sample from the manufacturer before specifying. Color names and swatch systems are manufacturer trademarks, shown here as editorial reference with a link to the official chart.