Brand reference
Nevskaya Palitra
212 Nevskaya Palitra paints measured in CIE L*a*b*, across oil.
Paint lines
Nevskaya Palitra groups its paints into ranges that differ in price, consistency and pigment load.
Master Class
112 paints
Ladoga
58 paints
Sonnet
42 paints
Lightfastness
How well the colour resists fading. ASTM I is the most permanent; V is fugitive.
I
139 paints
II
73 paints
Opacity
How much the paint covers what is underneath.
Opaque
72 paints
Semi-Transparent
71 paints
Semi-Opaque
38 paints
Transparent
31 paints
Pigments
86 distinct pigment codes across these paints. The most widely used are shown below; 78 more are used less often.
PW4
37 paints
PW6
27 paints
PBr7
19 paints
PG7
17 paints
PY83
14 paints
PR101
13 paints
PY42
12 paints
PB15
11 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 Yellow Deep
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Cerulean Blue
- Cobalt Green
- Indian Red
- Indian Yellow
- Indigo
- Lamp Black
- Mars Black
- Naples Yellow
- Olive Green
- Payne's Grey
- Prussian Blue
- Quinacridone Red
- Quinacridone Violet
- Raw Sienna
- Raw Umber
- Sap Green
- Titanium White
- Ultramarine Violet
- Vandyke Brown
- Venetian Red
- Viridian
- Yellow Ochre
- Zinc White
