Sennelier
579 Sennelier paints measured in CIE L*a*b*, across acrylic, gouache, oil, watercolor.
Official site: sennelier-colors.com
Paint lines
Sennelier groups its paints into ranges that differ in price, consistency and pigment load.
172 paints
120 paints
98 paints
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60 paints
59 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.
532 paints
19 paints
20 paints
5 paints
3 paints
Opacity
How much the paint covers what is underneath.
221 paints
151 paints
135 paints
72 paints
Pigments
104 distinct pigment codes across these paints. The most widely used are shown below; 96 more are used less often.
72 paints
62 paints
49 paints
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37 paints
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35 paints
31 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 Deep Hue
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Vandyke Brown
- Venetian Red
- Viridian
- Yellow Ochre
- Zinc White
