Our Swatches

Gradient swatches

On watercolor paper

Watercolor
Silpakorn Wichitrong Water Colour
Gouache
Schmincke HORADAM Gouache [Series 12]
★★★★☆
Dry Pigment
Kremer Pigmente [Dry] Pigments
* in watercolor binder

On drawing paper

Colored Pencil
Royal Talens Van Gogh Colour Pencil (colored pencil)
★★☆
Water-Soluble Colored Pencil
Derwent Inktense Pencils (water-soluble colored pencil)
4

On pastel paper

Soft Pastel
PanPastel Artists' Pastel (soft pastel)
★★★★
Oil Pastel
Caran d'Ache Neopastel (oil pastel)
★★★
Water-Soluble Pastel
Caran d'Ache Neocolor II Watersoluble (water-soluble pastel)
★★★
Our big swatches are gradient swatches on textured paper for showing pigment / medium / brand characteristics.

Masstone swatches / Dot chart view

Silpakorn Wichitrong Water Colour 816 Crimson Lake PR177 measurement swatch Royal Talens Van Gogh Oil Pastel 318.5 Carmine PV19, PB29 measurement swatch Kremer Pigmente [Dry] Pigments 23182 Ruby DPP TR PR264 measurement swatch Unison Colour Soft Pastels [uni_red_007] Red 7 measurement swatch Schmincke HORADAM Gouache [Series 12] 352 Carmine PV19 measurement swatch Derwent Inktense Pencils 0500 Chilli Red measurement swatch Lascaux Studio 925 Carmine Red PR264 measurement swatch Caran d'Ache Neocolor II Watersoluble 589 Alizarin Crimson (Hue) measurement swatch Stabilo CarbOthello 1400 330 Purple measurement swatch Holbein Duo Aqua Oil DU006,DU206 Cadmium Red Deep Hue PR170 measurement swatch
Couleurs Leroux Couleurs Extra-Fines Leroux [037] Cadmium Red Purple Genuine PR108 measurement swatch Schmincke PRIMAcryl [Series 13] 324 Alizarin Crimson Hue PR179 measurement swatch Winsor & Newton Artists' Water Colour [Old] 507 Perylene Maroon PR179 measurement swatch Holbein Acryla Gouache D007, D707 Wine Red PR184 measurement swatch Guerra Pigment Dispersions [191] Cadmium Red Dark H.S. PR108 measurement swatch Holbein Artists' Gouache G506 Cadmium Red Purple PR108 measurement swatch Kama Pigments Pigment PS-OR0069 Azo Red Pr144 PR144 measurement swatch R&F Encaustic [022] Mars Red PR101 measurement swatch Kama Pigments Oil Sticks BH-CA0040 Cadmium Red Deep PR108 measurement swatch Schmincke Norma Blue [Series 21] 313 Cadmium Red Deep hue PY216, PR254, PV19 measurement swatch
Our small swatches are masstone swatches (ideally opaque and even) for color measurements and main color.
In some cases we use color charts as samples whose application of color is different from ours.
Some manufacturers provide color data for their products which we sometimes use as digital masstone.

Read more about "How we scan and process images" in the Methodology →

What are those tiny swatches? :)

The tiny swatches in "hue strips" and before the brand and color names in lists - and also the dots representing colors in the color planes - are digital swatches showing the masstone of that color.

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(Note that the original measured color might not be displayed accurately if it's out of your display gamut.)

Color measurement is based on masstone and we use that as our color data for all color functionality.

You can see our masstone swatches on the individual pages of brand colors ("Color page").

Roman Szmal Aquarius 202 Nickel Titanate Yellow PY53 measurement swatch
watercolor
masstone
Display P3
sRGB

And also in the "Dot chart view" on brand pages.

Gradient swatches

Watercolor paper
  • Hahnemühle Echt-Bütten Aquarellkarton "50x65 cm" 300gsm Natural white
    L: 96.19,
    a: 0.25,
    b: 2.87
Drawing paper
  • Daler Rowney Simply Drawing 120gsm
    L: 95.94,
    a: 0.89,
    b: 0.87
Pastel paper
  • Fabriano Tiziano Pastel 160 gsm White
    L: 97.17,
    a: -0.03,
    b: 3.26

Read more about "How our color samples are made (masstone)" in the Methodology →

How many gradient swatches do we have on our website? — 5340

How many art products have color data on our website? — 11007

See full table of database statistics by mediums with sources indicated

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