Winsor & Newton
648 Winsor & Newton paints measured in CIE L*a*b*, across acrylic, gouache, oil, watercolor.
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Paint lines
Winsor & Newton groups its paints into ranges that differ in price, consistency and pigment load.
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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.
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Opacity
How much the paint covers what is underneath.
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Pigments
80 distinct pigment codes across these paints. The most widely used are shown below; 72 more are used less often.
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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
