McLaren 750S, from factory to Color Spectrum-style fading.

McLaren, through its MSO personalization division, will offer buyers of the 750S supercar a color-fade option known as the Spectrum theme.

Three colors are available: Spectrum Blue, Spectrum Orange, and Spectrum Gray. Each features a spectral-style fade pattern of the same color, formed using seven different shades of paint.

Color fades are popular in the tuning scene, but are typically applied as a print wrap. Actually painting a fade is a more complex process, and adding a color spectrum brings new challenges.

McLaren had to develop paint mixes for each of the seven shades that make up each spectral theme. This was important, the automaker said, because it needed just the right amount of light and dark tones to form natural color variations.

The MSO team then had to paint the 750S in a way that suited its shut lines and aerodynamics. The automaker said the door surfaces were a particularly difficult challenge.

"Enormous care and precision are required to ensure that the spectral lines are in perfect harmony with the great bodywork surfaces of the 750S," MSO director Michael McDonough said in a statement.

Another challenge is the rear color, which consists of its own fade, similar to the simpler Velocity Theme fade previously offered on the 720S. the Spectrum Blue option uses a metallic aurora blue for the rear. The Spectrum Orange option uses Gamma Red metallic on the rear, and the Spectrum Gray option uses metallic Meteorite Gray on the rear.

McLaren stated that more color spectrum style fade options will be available, including a new fade pattern. It did not say whether these new options would be offered on models other than the 750S.