Acrylic-styrene copolymer designed for high-gloss, waterborne industrial coatings where an attractive appearance and excellent dry and wet adhesion are important considerations. The favorable colloidal stability (robustness) accommodates a broad range of formulation types and formulation process techniques, offering the formulator with a versatile binder for a variety of applications. Robustness, along with 50% weight solids, allows the formulator to achieve volume solids above conventional waterborne binders.