Our Swatches

Gradient swatches

On watercolor paper

Watercolor
Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colour
A ASTM: I
Gouache
Shinhan Professional Designers Gouache
★★★★
Dry Pigment
Matsuda Pigments
* in watercolor binder

On drawing paper

Colored Pencil
Derwent Coloursoft Pencils (colored pencil)
7
Water-Soluble Colored Pencil
Derwent Inktense Pencils (water-soluble colored pencil)
6

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

Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colour 106 Cadmium Scarlet PR108 measurement swatch Sennelier Artist' Oil Pastel 038 Vermillion PO20, PR108 measurement swatch Matsuda Pigments 1515 Super Orange PO43 measurement swatch Unison Colour Soft Pastels [uni_re_014] Red Earth 14 measurement swatch Shinhan Professional Designers Gouache 015 Cadmium Red PR108 measurement swatch Derwent Inktense Pencils 0313 Wild Flame measurement swatch Royal Talens Amsterdam Standard Series 311 Vermilion PO34, PY74 measurement swatch Mungyo Gallery Aquarell Aqua Crayons (MAC series) 312 Scarlet measurement swatch Stabilo CarbOthello 1400 305 Vermillion Red Tone measurement swatch Holbein Duo Aqua Oil DU008,DU208 Vermilion Hue PR188, PO73 measurement swatch
Schmincke Norma [Series 11] 306 Vermilion red Light PO67, PR255 measurement swatch Lascaux Artist 123 Pyrrole Orange PO73 measurement swatch Roman Szmal Aquarius 354 Aquarius Orange measurement swatch Holbein Acryla Gouache D035, D735 Orange PO13 measurement swatch Guerra Pigment Dispersions PR260001 Isoindoline Red PR260 measurement swatch Holbein Artists' Gouache G508 Brilliant Orange PO13 measurement swatch Kama Pigments Pigment PS-CA0040 Cadmium Orange deep Po20 PO20 measurement swatch R&F Encaustic [018] Cadmium Red Light PR108 measurement swatch Kama Pigments Oil Sticks BH-OR0065 Azo Orange Light PY83, PR170, PY53 measurement swatch Schmincke Norma Blue [Series 21] 306 Vermilion Red Light PO67, PR255 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? — 10479

See full table of database statistics by mediums with sources indicated

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