Oil paints

Brands

Every brand in the database making oil paint.

• Daler-Rowney · 98 paints
• Gamblin · 114 paints
• Holbein · 74 paints
• Lukas · 111 paints
• M. Graham · 61 paints
• Maimeri · 171 paints
• Michael Harding · 104 paints
• Nevskaya Palitra · 212 paints
• Old Holland · 124 paints
• Royal Talens · 101 paints
• Schmincke · 192 paints
• Sennelier · 232 paints
• Williamsburg · 232 paints
• Winsor & Newton · 223 paints

Lightfastness

How well the colour resists fading. ASTM I is the most permanent; V is fugitive.

Opacity

How much the paint covers what is underneath.

Pigments

173 distinct pigment codes across these paints. The most widely used are shown below; 165 more are used less often.

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