Brand reference
Williamsburg
232 Williamsburg paints measured in CIE L*a*b*, across oil.
Official site: williamsburgoils.com
Paint lines
Williamsburg groups its paints into ranges that differ in price, consistency and pigment load.
Handmade Oil Colors
232 paints
Lightfastness
How well the colour resists fading. ASTM I is the most permanent; V is fugitive.
I
210 paints
II
6 paints
III
3 paints
Opacity
How much the paint covers what is underneath.
Opaque
86 paints
Semi-Opaque
61 paints
Transparent
44 paints
Semi-Transparent
41 paints
Pigments
71 distinct pigment codes across these paints. The most widely used are shown below; 63 more are used less often.
PW6
32 paints
PR101
24 paints
PY42
22 paints
PBr7
20 paints
PY43
17 paints
PR102
13 paints
PB29
11 paints
PG7
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 Red Medium
- Cadmium Yellow Deep
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Cerulean Blue
- Chromium Oxide Green
- Cobalt Blue
- Cobalt Green
- Cobalt Turquoise
- Green Gold
- Indian Red
- Indian Yellow
- Indigo
- Ivory Black
- Lamp Black
- 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 Red
- Quinacridone Violet
- Raw Sienna
- Raw Umber
- Sap Green
- Titanium White
- Ultramarine Blue
- Ultramarine Violet
- Venetian Red
- Viridian
- Yellow Ochre
- Zinc White
