Mortar Mix

[DIYer Northwest]

Looking for some advice in regards to Mortar Mix for pointing. Any ideas how I can get a similar color to the brick work mortar? The pictures on the Blue Circle ready to use mix suggests once dry it will be a similar color (although not exact), although the small print says it dry's a light grey color were I would say the current mortar is a sand/redish colour.

Any advice please?

 

[23vc]

Totally depends on the sand, and the brick it’s being applied to. All you can do is do a test patch on the same type of brick. Pics on bags are meaningless in this context.
You can try the ready mix and may get lucky on the colour but otherwise you want (red) building sand and cement, in something like a 1:5 mix. Going stronger (more cement) will make it less brown and more grey

Edit - I assumed you’d already bought the readymix. If not, I wouldn’t bother. go for a bag of sand and one of cement. You can at least play with the ratios then

 

[jeds]

Bag of red sand from your local merchant. Mix 1:5 and do a couple of patches. Allow to dry and check?

PS. Volume builders don't use colouring additives. Pinkish mortar is almost always just red sand. There's a small chance it might have been a silo readymix but very unlikely unless the site is very large.