Our Swatches

Gradient swatches

On watercolor paper

Watercolor
Roman Szmal Aquarius (watercolor)
★★★★★★★★
Gouache
Shinhan Professional Designers Gouache
★★★★
Dry Pigment
Wallace Seymour Pigments
* in watercolor binder

On drawing paper

Colored Pencil
Koh-I-Noor Polycolor 3800 (colored pencil)
★★☆☆☆
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

Roman Szmal Aquarius 413 Cobalt Blue Deep PB74 measurement swatch Holbein Artists' Oil Pastel (Japanese) 571 Ultramarine Light PW6, PB29 measurement swatch Wallace Seymour Pigments A025 Smalt Blue Glass, Genuine PB32 measurement swatch Sennelier Extra Soft Pastels (à l'écu) 388 Ultramarine Deep 388 measurement swatch Shinhan Professional Designers Gouache 093 Cobalt Blue PB28 measurement swatch Crayola Pro Watercolours [6] Blue measurement swatch Lascaux Studio 943 Ultramarine Light PB29, PW6 measurement swatch Caran d'Ache Neocolor II Watersoluble 140 Ultramarine measurement swatch Stabilo CarbOthello 1400 405 Ultramarine measurement swatch Winsor & Newton Artisan Water Mixable Oil Colour 137 Cerulean Blue PB35 measurement swatch
Couleurs Leroux Couleurs Extra-Fines Leroux [058] Cobalt Blue Light Ocean PB28 measurement swatch Schmincke PRIMAcryl [Series 13] 434 Cobalt Blue Deep PB28, PB60 measurement swatch Winsor & Newton Artists' Water Colour [Old] 180 Cobalt Blue Deep PB74 measurement swatch Lascaux Gouache 312 Cobalt blue PB29, PW6 measurement swatch Guerra Pigment Dispersions PB280007 Cobalt Blue Medium PB28 measurement swatch Schmincke HORADAM Gouache [Series 12] 466 Cobalt Blue Deep PB74, PB28 measurement swatch L. Cornelissen & Son Pigments [033] Azure Blue PB28 measurement swatch R&F Encaustic [046] Provence Blue measurement swatch Kama Pigments Oil Sticks BH-IN0005 Ultramarine Blue R.S. PB29 measurement swatch Schmincke Norma Blue [Series 21] 422 Cerulean Blue PW6, PB15:3, PG18, 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? — 5292

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

See full table of database statistics by mediums with sources indicated

(Click on the headers to sort and view top lists.)