Brand reference
Royal Talens
169 Royal Talens paints measured in CIE L*a*b*, across oil, watercolor.
Official site: royaltalens.com
Paint lines
Royal Talens groups its paints into ranges that differ in price, consistency and pigment load.
Rembrandt Oil Colors
101 paints
Van Gogh
68 paints
Lightfastness
How well the colour resists fading. ASTM I is the most permanent; V is fugitive.
I
167 paints
II
2 paints
Opacity
How much the paint covers what is underneath.
Transparent
59 paints
Semi-Transparent
51 paints
Opaque
46 paints
Semi-Opaque
13 paints
Pigments
52 distinct pigment codes across these paints. The most widely used are shown below; 44 more are used less often.
PR101
13 paints
PB29
13 paints
PBk9
13 paints
PBr7
13 paints
PW6
12 paints
PV19
12 paints
PG36
12 paints
PY154
9 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
- Chromium Oxide Green
- Cobalt Blue
- Cobalt Green
- Indian Red
- Indian Yellow
- Indigo
- Ivory Black
- Lamp Black
- Lemon Yellow
- Mars Black
- Naples Yellow
- Olive Green
- Payne's Grey
- Permanent Green Deep
- Permanent Green Light
- Phthalo Blue
- Phthalo Green
- Prussian Blue
- Pyrrole Red
- Quinacridone Magenta
- Quinacridone Violet
- Raw Sienna
- Raw Umber
- Sap Green
- Titanium White
- Transparent Orange
- Ultramarine Violet
- Vandyke Brown
- Venetian Red
- Viridian
- Yellow Ochre
- Zinc White
