Watercolor paints
1015 watercolor paints from 10 brands, measured in CIE L*a*b*.
Brands
Every brand in the database making watercolor paint.
Lightfastness
How well the colour resists fading. ASTM I is the most permanent; V is fugitive.
942 paints
13 paints
10 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
16 paints
3 paints
Opacity
How much the paint covers what is underneath.
452 paints
214 paints
187 paints
162 paints
Pigments
102 distinct pigment codes across these paints. The most widely used are shown below; 94 more are used less often.
79 paints
72 paints
72 paints
69 paints
58 paints
58 paints
50 paints
44 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
- 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
