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Flake reads differently under a garage light than it does on a screen. Choose up to four blends and see them where the floor is going to be.
What a sample settles
Color and blend, under your own light. That is the whole job, and it is worth doing. A blend photographs one way on a screen, another under a fluorescent tube, and another again with the garage door open on a gray afternoon. Standing the real thing on the real slab settles it in about ten seconds.
What it cannot
It cannot tell you how the floor wears. A sample is too small and too new to say anything honest about durability, and nothing you can do to one in your hand resembles a year of a car parked on it.
It cannot tell you how the floor feels underfoot when it is wet, either. Texture comes from the broadcast on your slab and the topcoat that goes over it, not from a piece you are holding.
And it will not show you scale. Flake reads larger in the hand than it does across a two-bay floor. If scale is the thing you are unsure about, put a photo of your own garage through the visualizer and use the sample for color.
Why the flake is the part worth seeing
Every ANVIL floor is the same system underneath: the same primer, the same polyaspartic base coat, the same clear topcoat. The blend is the only layer that changes from one floor to the next. So a sample is not a preview of the product. It is a preview of the only decision you actually have to make.
Why four
Four is the number that gets a decision made. Two is not enough to see a difference. Eight and you are sorting rather than choosing, because blends that looked distinct on a screen start to look like each other once they are all on the same floor in the same light. Take four home, live with them for a day, and one of them will have won by the evening.