Golden
612 Golden paints measured in CIE L*a*b*, across acrylic, watercolor.
Official site: goldenpaints.com
Paint lines
Golden groups its paints into ranges that differ in price, consistency and pigment load.
312 paints
103 paints
74 paints
69 paints
54 paints
Mediums
Compare this brand against every other one making the same kind of paint.
Lightfastness
How well the colour resists fading. ASTM I is the most permanent; V is fugitive.
560 paints
38 paints
14 paints
Opacity
How much the paint covers what is underneath.
178 paints
177 paints
156 paints
101 paints
Pigments
70 distinct pigment codes across these paints. The most widely used are shown below; 62 more are used less often.
147 paints
62 paints
55 paints
44 paints
43 paints
40 paints
38 paints
34 paints
Colours compared across brands
Each page sets this colour side by side with every brand that makes it, measured in CIE L*a*b*.
- Burnt Sienna
- Burnt Umber
- Cadmium Orange
- Cadmium Red Deep
- Cadmium Red Light
- Cadmium Red Medium
- Cadmium Yellow Deep
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Cerulean Blue
- Cerulean Blue Hue
- Chromium Oxide Green
- Cobalt Blue
- Cobalt Blue Hue
- Cobalt Green
- Cobalt Turquoise
- Dioxazine Purple
- Green Gold
- Hooker's Green
- Indian Red
- Indian Yellow
- Ivory Black
- Lamp Black
- Mars Black
- Payne's Grey
- Permanent Green Light
- Primary Yellow
- Prussian Blue
- Pyrrole Red
- Quinacridone Magenta
- Quinacridone Red
- Quinacridone Violet
- Raw Sienna
- Raw Umber
- Sap Green
- Titanium White
- Transparent Orange
- Ultramarine Blue
- Ultramarine Violet
- Venetian Red
- Viridian
- Yellow Ochre
- Zinc White
