Vallejo
249 Vallejo paints measured in CIE L*a*b*, across acrylic, watercolor.
Official site: acrylicosvallejo.com
Paint lines
Vallejo groups its paints into ranges that differ in price, consistency and pigment load.
96 paints
61 paints
50 paints
42 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.
145 paints
37 paints
These paints carry the brand's own lightfastness scale rather than ASTM I-V, so they are not directly comparable with the grades above.
31 paints
17 paints
16 paints
3 paints
Opacity
How much the paint covers what is underneath.
100 paints
82 paints
67 paints
Pigments
46 distinct pigment codes across these paints. The most widely used are shown below; 38 more are used less often.
50 paints
37 paints
26 paints
25 paints
22 paints
22 paints
16 paints
15 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 Medium
- Cerulean Blue
- Chromium Oxide Green
- Cobalt Green
- Cobalt Turquoise
- Green Gold
- Hooker's Green
- Ivory Black
- Lamp Black
- Lemon Yellow
- Mars Black
- Olive Green
- Payne's Grey
- Phthalo Blue
- Phthalo Green
- Pyrrole Red
- Quinacridone Violet
- Raw Sienna
- Raw Umber
- Transparent Orange
- Ultramarine Blue
- Ultramarine Violet
- Yellow Ochre
- Zinc White
