Our Swatches

Gradient swatches

On watercolor paper

Watercolor
Gekkoso Watercolors
Gouache
Nicker Poster Colour (gouache)
☆☆
Dry Pigment
Ocres de France Pigments
* in watercolor binder

On drawing paper

Colored Pencil
Derwent Procolour Pencils (colored pencil)
1
Water-Soluble Colored Pencil
Derwent Inktense Pencils (water-soluble colored pencil)
2

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

Gekkoso Watercolors [13] Cobalt Violet Pink PR12, PB29, PB15:3, PR258 measurement swatch Sakura Cray-Pas Specialist ESP-421 Magenta Pink PR101, PR122, PW6 measurement swatch Ocres de France Pigments AR00114 Rose Fuchsia PR122 measurement swatch Marie's Master Pastel 336 Rose measurement swatch Nicker Poster Colour 011 Magenta PR81 measurement swatch Derwent Watercolour Pencils 22 Magenta measurement swatch Liquitex Acrylic Regular Type (Japanese) 003 Medium Magenta 500 PR122, PW6 measurement swatch Mungyo Gallery Aquarell Aqua Crayons (MAC series) 314 Crls Crimson Lake measurement swatch Stabilo CarbOthello 1400 335 Magenta measurement swatch Schmincke Norma Blue [Series 21] 311 Cadmium Red Medium hue PR254, PY216 measurement swatch
Schmincke Norma [Series 11] 348 Magenta PR122, PW4 measurement swatch Golden Heavy Body 1570 (41) Medium Magenta PW6, PR122 measurement swatch Michael Harding Professional Watercolour Paint 213 Magenta PR122 measurement swatch Turner Acryl Gouache 123 Rose Pink PW6, (FL) measurement swatch Guerra Pigment Dispersions [192] Thio Violet PV36 measurement swatch Schmincke Designers' Gouache (HKS) [Series 25] 333 Cobalt Violet PW5, PV19, PV1 measurement swatch L. Cornelissen & Son Pigments [015] Cobalt Violet Light PV47 measurement swatch R&F Encaustic [027] Warm Rose measurement swatch Kama Pigments Oil Sticks BH-OR0040 Quinacridone Violet PV19 measurement swatch Schmincke Norma Blue [Series 21] 348 Magenta PR122, PW7 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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