Artist Pigments & Dyes

List of colorants, pigments, dyes used in artist mediums from paints to colored pencils and printing inks.

Highlight mediums

All mediums Water-Soluble Pastel Resin-based Restoration Paint Watercolor Gouache Pigment, dry or paste Acrylic Oil Liquid Watercolor Watercolor Stick Poster Color Acrylic Gouache Acrylic Ink Acrylic Spray Acrylic Marker Ink Egg Tempera Casein Water Mixable Oil Oil Stick Colored Pencil Water-Soluble Colored Pencil Soft Pastel Oil Pastel Hard Pastel Pastel Pencil Encaustic Intaglio Ink Relief Ink Lithography Ink Screen Printing Ink

Pigments & Dyes in the database

PB — Pigment Blue

  • Han Blue
  • Vivianite (Blue Ocher)
  • Lapis Lazuli
  • Palomar Turquoise
  • AB7 Acid Blue 7 (Dye)
  • AB83 Acid Blue 83 (Dye)
  • FB2:1 Food Blue 2 (Dye)
  • NB1 Indigo (Dye)
  • VB1 Vat Blue
  • PB1 ● Victoria Blue
  • PB11 - Pigment Blue 11
  • PB14:1 ● Pigment Blue 14
  • PB15 ●●●●● Phthalocyanine Blue
  • PB15:0 ●● Phthalocyanine Blue
  • PB15:1 ●●●● Phthalocyanine Blue Red Shade
  • PB15:2 ●● Phthalocyanine Blue
  • PB15:3 ●●●●● Phthalocyanine Blue Green Shade
  • PB15:4 ●●● Phthalocyanine Blue NCF
  • PB15:6 ●● Phthalocyanine Blue
  • PB16 ●●● Phthalocyanine turquoise
  • PB16:3 -
  • PB17 ● Phthalocyanine Cyan
  • PB17:1 - Fast Sky Blue Lake
  • PB24 ● Ichomine Turquoise Blue G
  • PB27 ●●●●● Prussian Blue
  • PB27:1 ●● Prussian Blue
  • PB28 ●●●●● Cobalt Blue
  • PB29 ●●●●● Ultramarine Blue
  • PB30 ●● Copper Carbonate
  • PB31 ●● Egyptian Blue
  • PB32 ●● Smalt
  • PB33 ●● Manganese Blue
  • PB34 Copper sulfide / Covellite
  • PB35 ●●●●● Cerulean Blue
  • PB36 ●●●●● Cobalt Chromite
  • PB36:1 ●● Zinc Cobalt Chrome Aluminum Spinel
  • PB60 ●●●●● Indanthrone Blue
  • PB61 - Modorant Blue R
  • PB66 ●● Indigo
  • PB68 - Pigment Blue 68
  • PB71 ● Zirconium Vanadium Blue
  • PB72 ●● Cobalt Zinc Aluminate Blue
  • PB73 ●● Cobalt Silicate Blue
  • PB74 ●●● Cobalt Zinc Silicate Blue
  • PB76 ● Fastogen Blue 10GN
  • PB80 ● Hostaperm Blue R5R
  • PB81 ● Cobalt Tin Alumina Blue Spinel
  • PB82 ●● MayaCrom Blue B2050
  • PB84 MayaPure Blue B 8000F
  • PB86 ●● YInMn Blue

PBk — Black

  • Shungite
  • NBk6 Asphaltum
  • PBk1 ●●● Aniline Black
  • PBk6 ●●●● Carbon Black / Shungite
  • PBk7 ●●●●● Lamp Black
  • PBk8 ●● Vine Black
  • PBk9 ●●●●● Bone Black
  • PBk10 ●●● Graphite
  • PBk11 ●●●●● Mars Black
  • PBk12 ●● Iron Titanium Brown Spinel
  • PBk14 ● Manganese Black
  • PBk18 ● Mineral Black
  • PBk19 ●● Slate Black
  • PBk23 Tin Antimony Gray
  • PBk26 ●● Manganese Ferrite Black
  • PBk27 ● Iron Cobalt Chromite Black
  • PBk28 ●● Copper Chromite Black
  • PBk30 ● Chrome Iron Nickel Black
  • PBk31 ●●● Perylene Green
  • PBk32 ● Perylene Black
  • PBk33 ● Iron Manganese Oxide

PBr — Brown

  • Chromite
  • NBr8 Natural Brown 8 (Dye)
  • NBr9 Sepia
  • NBr11 Bistre
  • PBr6 ●●● Iron Oxide Hydroxide Brown
  • PBr7 ●●●●● Brown Iron Oxide
  • PBr8 ●●● Manganese Brown
  • PBr9 ● Copper Ferrocyanide
  • PBr11 ● Magnesium Ferrite
  • PBr23 ●● Cromophtal Brown 5R
  • PBr24 ●●●● Chrome Antimony Titanate
  • PBr25 ●●● Benzimidazolone Brown
  • PBr29 ● Chrome Iron Brown
  • PBr33 ●● Zinc Iron Chromite Brown
  • PBr41 ● Disazo Condensation Brown
  • PBr42 ● Azo Golden Brown
  • PBr43 ●● Iron-Manganese Oxide

PG — Green

  • NG2 Sap Green
  • SG3 Solvent Green 3 (Dye)
  • PG1 - Pigment Green 1
  • PG7 ●●●●● Phthalocyanine Green Blue Shade
  • PG8 ●●● Nitroso Green
  • PG10 ●● Nickel Azo Yellow
  • PG14 - Cadmium Green
  • PG15 - Chrome Green
  • PG16 ● Zinc Green
  • PG17 ●●●●● Chrome Oxide Green
  • PG18 ●●●●● Viridian
  • PG19 ●●●● Cobalt Green Pale
  • PG20 ● Verdigris
  • PG23 ●●●●● Green Earth
  • PG24 ● Ultramarine Green
  • PG26 ●●● Cobalt Chromite Green
  • PG36 ●●●●● Phthalocyanine Green Yellow Shade
  • PG39 ●● Copper Carbonate Hydroxide
  • PG48 ● Chromocyanine Green
  • PG50 ●●●●● Cobalt Titanate Green
  • PG51 ● Victoria Green Garnet

PO — Orange

  • Irgazin DPP Cosmoray Orange
  • NO2 Kamala
  • PO1 - Hansa Orange
  • PO3 - Pigment Orange 3
  • PO5 ●● Hansa Orange RN
  • PO12 -
  • PO13 ●● Benzidine Orange
  • PO16 ●● Benzidine Orange
  • PO17 ● Persian Orange
  • PO18 - Pigment Orange 18
  • PO20 ●●●●● Cadmium Orange
  • PO20:1 ●● Cadmium-Barium Orange
  • PO23 - Cadmium Vermilion Orange
  • PO31 ● Chromo Orange 4R
  • PO34 ●● Pyrazolone Orange
  • PO36 ●●● Benzimidazolone Orange HSL
  • PO36:1 ● Benzimidazolone Orange HSL
  • PO38 ● Naphthol Orange
  • PO40 ● Pigment Orange 40
  • PO43 ●●● Perinone Orange
  • PO47 ● Quinacridone Orange
  • PO48 ●● Quinacridone Burnt Orange
  • PO49 ● Quinacridone Gold
  • PO51 ● Pyranthrone Orange
  • PO59 ●● Pigment Orange 59
  • PO60 ● Benzimidazolone Orange HGL
  • PO61 ●● Isoindolol Orange
  • PO62 ●●● Benzimidazolone Orange H5G
  • PO64 ●● Benzimidazolone Orange H2GL
  • PO65 ● Benzimidazolone Orange
  • PO67 ●● Pyrazoloquinazolone Orange
  • PO68 ● Sandorin Orange
  • PO69 ● Isoindoline Orange
  • PO71 ●● Pyrrole Orange
  • PO72 ● Hostaprint Orange H4GL 32
  • PO73 ●●●● Pyrrol Orange
  • PO82 ●● Sicopal Orange
  • PO86 ● Bismuth Vanadate Orange

PR — Pigment Red

  • Quinacridone pyrrolidone
  • Thulite
  • AR52 Acid Red 52 (Dye)
  • AR87 Acid Red 87 (Dye)
  • BR1 Basic Red 1 (Dye)
  • BR1:1 Basic Red 1 (Dye)
  • BR2 Basic Red 2 (Dye)
  • BR12 Basic Red 12 (Dye)
  • FR14
  • NR4 Cochineal
  • NR4:1 Natural Red 4 (Dye)
  • NR8 Alizarin Crimson
  • NR9 Madder Lake, Natural Red 9 (Dye)
  • NR31 Dragon's Blood
  • SR196 Solvent Red 196
  • VR1 Vat Red 1 (Dye)
  • VR41 Vat Red 41 (Dye)
  • PR2 ● Naphthol Red G
  • PR3 ●●● Toluidine Red
  • PR4 ●● Permanent Red R
  • PR5 ●● Naphthol Red DK
  • PR7 ● Naphthol Crimson Red AS-TR
  • PR8 ● Permanent Red F4R
  • PR9 ●●● Naphthol AS Red
  • PR10 - Pigment Red 10
  • PR12 ●● Permanent Bordeaux TRR
  • PR13 - Toluidine Maroon
  • PR14 ●● Permanent Bordeaux FGR
  • PR15 - Permanent Maroon Medium
  • PR17 ● Pigment Red 17
  • PR21 ● Pigment Red 21
  • PR22 ● Naphthol Red Bright
  • PR23 ●● Naphthol AS Carmine
  • PR25 - Pigment Red 25
  • PR31 - Naphthol Red Extra Dark
  • PR48 - Permanent Red 2B
  • PR48:1 ● Permanent Red BB [FIAT] (Barium salt)
  • PR48:2 - Permanent Red BB (Calcium salt)
  • PR48:3 ● Irgalite Red 2BY (Strontium salt)
  • PR48:4 ●● Permanent Red 2B (Manganese salt)
  • PR49 ● Pigment Red 49
  • PR49:1 - Barium Lithol Red
  • PR49:2 Calcium Lithol Red
  • PR52:2 ● Pigment Red 52:2
  • PR53 ● Pigment Red 53
  • PR53:1 ● Pigment Lake Red C (Barium salt)
  • PR56:1 -
  • PR57 ●● Sodium Lithol Rubine
  • PR57:1 ●● Lithol Rubine (Calcium salt)
  • PR60 ● Permanent Rose
  • PR60:1 - Pigment Red 60:1
  • PR62 ● Pigment Carmine 3B
  • PR63 - Pigment Red 63
  • PR63:1 ●● Lithol Bordeaux
  • PR67:1 -
  • PR81 ●● Rhodamine 6G (PTM salts)
  • PR81:1 ● Rhodamine 6G [FIAT]
  • PR81:2 Rhodamine YS
  • PR81:3 ● Synthetic Alizarin Lake
  • PR81:5 ● Pigment Red 81:5 (SM salts)
  • PR83 ●●●●● Alizarin Crimson
  • PR83:1 ●● Synthetic Alizarin Lake
  • PR88 ●● Thioindigoid Violet
  • PR89 ● Pigment Red 89
  • PR101 ●●●●● Synthetic Iron Oxide Red
  • PR101:1 ●● Red Hematite
  • PR102 ●●●●● Natural Red Iron Oxide
  • PR104 ● Molybdate Orange
  • PR105 ● Red Lead
  • PR106 ●● Vermillion (genuine)
  • PR107 - Antimony Red
  • PR108 ●●●●● Cadmium Red
  • PR108:1 ●● Cadmium-Barium Red
  • PR109 - Purple of Cassius
  • PR112 ●●●●● Naphthol Red AS-D
  • PR113 - Cadmium Vermilion Red
  • PR114 ● Pigment Red 114
  • PR122 ●●●●● Quinacridone Magenta
  • PR123 ● Perylene Scarlet
  • PR139 ● Chromophal BR
  • PR144 ●● Azo Condensation Red
  • PR146 ●● Naphthol Red AS
  • PR147 ● Toluidine Red
  • PR149 ●● Perylene Red
  • PR150 ● Pigment Red 150
  • PR166 ●● Azo Condensation Red
  • PR167 -
  • PR168 ●● Anthradquinone Scarlet
  • PR169 ●● Rhodamine
  • PR170 ●●●●● Naphthol Red AS
  • PR170:1 ● Pigment Red 170:1
  • PR171 ● Benzimidazolone Bordeaux
  • PR173 ● Rhodamine Red
  • PR175 ●● Benzimidazolone Red HFT
  • PR176 ●● Benzimidazolone Carmine
  • PR177 ●●●● Anthraquinone Red
  • PR178 ●● Perylene Red
  • PR179 ●●●● Perylene Maroon
  • PR184 ●● Permanent Rubine F6G
  • PR185 ●● Permanent Carmine HF4C
  • PR187 ●● Permanent Pink FL
  • PR188 ●●● Naphthol Scarlet Lake
  • PR194 ● Perinone Red
  • PR197 ● Pigment Red 197
  • PR202 ●● Quinacridone Crimson
  • PR204 ● Pigment Red 204
  • PR206 ●●● Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet
  • PR207 ●● Quinacridone Scarlet
  • PR208 ● Benzimidazolone Red HF2B
  • PR209 ●●●● Quinacridone Red
  • PR210 ● Naphthol Red (Medium)
  • PR211 ● Symuler Red 3042
  • PR213 Symuler Red 3042
  • PR214 ●● Fastogen Super Red 2R
  • PR216 ● Pyranthrone Red Deep
  • PR221 ● Cromophtal Red 2B
  • PR223 ● Irgazin Red
  • PR224 ● Perylene Red
  • PR225 ● Pyrathrone Red
  • PR226 ● Pyrathrone red
  • PR233 ●● Chrome Tin Pink (Potter's Pink)
  • PR238 ● Naphthol Red (Rubine Shade)
  • PR242 ●● Disazo Condensation Scarlet
  • PR245 ● Naphthol Red Strong Medium Shade
  • PR251 ●● Pyrazolo-quinazolone scarlet
  • PR252 ● Pyrazo Quinazo
  • PR253 ● Graphtol Red GLF
  • PR254 ●●●●● Pyrrole Red
  • PR255 ●●●● Pyrrole Scarlet
  • PR256 ● Graphtol Scarlet 3RLF
  • PR257 ● Organic Nickel Violet
  • PR258 Pigment Red 258
  • PR259 ●●● Ultramarine Pink
  • PR260 ● Isoindoline scarlet
  • PR264 ●●●● Pyrrole Red Rubine
  • PR265 ● Cerium Sulfide Red
  • PR266 ● Permanent Red P-F7RK
  • PR268 Permanent Scarlet OA
  • PR277 - Piment Red 277
  • PR287 ● MayaCrom Red R2051
  • PR290 ● Sicopal Red EH 2370 (L 3050)
  • PR298 YInTiCo Red, Red 10K333

PV — Pigment Violet

  • Han Purple
  • BV10:Br2 Basic Violet 10 (Dye)
  • BV1 Basic Violet 1 (Dye)
  • BV1.11
  • BV7 Fluorescent Blue-Violet 7 (Dye)
  • BV7.11
  • BV7.15
  • BV10 Basic Violet 10 (Dye)
  • BV11 Basic Violet 11 (Dye)
  • BV11:1 Basic Violet 11 (Dye)
  • BV12 Basic Violet 12 (Dye)
  • BV15 Fluorescent Magenta
  • BV16
  • PV1 ●● Rhodamine Violet
  • PV2 ● Purple
  • PV3 ●● M Methyl Violet
  • PV3:2 -
  • PV5 ●● Alizarine Violet
  • PV7 - Anthraquinone violet
  • PV10 -
  • PV14 ●●●●● Cobalt violet
  • PV15 ●●●●● Ultramarine Violet
  • PV16 ●●●● Manganese Violet
  • PV18 ● Ferro Light Violet
  • PV19 ●●●●● Quinacridone Violet
  • PV23 ●●●●● Dioxazine Violet
  • PV27 - Permanent Violet
  • PV29 ●● Perylene Violet
  • PV32 ● Benzimiazolone Violet
  • PV36 Indanthrene Violet
  • PV37 ●● Dioxazine Violet
  • PV42 ●● Quinacridone Violet
  • PV47 ●● Cobalt Lithium Violet Phosphate
  • PV49 ●● Cobalt Pale Violet
  • PV55 ●● Quinacridone Purple
  • PV58 ● MayaCrom Violet V2001F
  • PV62 ● Strontium Phosphate Violet
  • PV102 ● Ammonium Cobalt Phosphate

PW — White

  • Strontium Titanate
  • PW1 ●● Lead White
  • PW2 ● Lead Sulphate White
  • PW3 - Basic Lead Sulphate White
  • PW4 ●●●●● Zinc Oxide White
  • PW5 ●● Lithopone
  • PW6 ●●●●● Titanium White
  • PW6:1 ●●● Titanium White Buff
  • PW7 ●● Zinc Sulphide White
  • PW8 ● Strontium sulfide
  • PW11 Antimony White
  • PW12 ● Zirconium Oxide
  • PW14 - Bismuth Oxychloride
  • PW15 - Tin Oxide
  • PW18 ●● Chalk
  • PW19 ● Kaolin
  • PW20 ●●●● Mica
  • PW21 ● Blanc Fix
  • PW22 ● Barytes
  • PW24 ● Aluminium Hydroxide
  • PW25 ● Gypsum
  • PW26 ● Talc
  • PW27 ● Silica
  • PW28 Calcium Silicate

PY — Pigment Yellow

  • Realgar
  • NY2 Reseda
  • NY13 Yellow Lake
  • NY14 Stil de Grain
  • NY24 Gamboge
  • SY33 Quinoline yellow, Solvent Yellow 33 (Dye)
  • SY44 Solvent Yellow 44 (Dye)
  • SY116 Solvent Yellow 116 (Dye)
  • SY135 Solvent Yellow 135 (Dye)
  • SY163 Solvent Yellow 163 (Dye)
  • PY1 ●●● Hansa Yellow G
  • PY1:1 ● Monolite Yellow G
  • PY2 - Hansa Yellow GR
  • PY3 ●●●●● Hansa Yellow 10G
  • PY4 ● Hansa Yellow 10G
  • PY6 ● Hansa Yellow 3G
  • PY7 - Pigment Yellow 7
  • PY10 ● Hansa Yellow R
  • PY12 ● Benzidine Yellow G
  • PY13 ●● Benzidine Yellow GR
  • PY14 ●● Diarylide Yellow AAOT
  • PY17 ●● Dairylide Yellow 17
  • PY24 ● Flaventhrone Yellow
  • PY31 ●● Barium Chromate
  • PY32 ●● Strontium Chromate
  • PY34 ●● Lead Chromate
  • PY35 ●●●●● Cadmium Yellow
  • PY35:1 ●● Cadmium lithopone Yellow
  • PY36 - Zinc Yellow
  • PY37 ●●●● Cadmium Yellow
  • PY37:1 ● Cadmium-Barium Yellow Deep
  • PY39 ●● Orpiment
  • PY40 ●●● Aureoline
  • PY41 ●● Naples Yellow
  • PY42 ●●●●● Yellow Iron Oxide
  • PY43 ●●●●● Natural Yellow Iron Oxide
  • PY46 ●● Litharge
  • PY48 - Lead Cyanamide
  • PY53 ●●●● Nickel Antimony Titanium Yellow Rutile
  • PY55 ● Diarylide Yellow AAPT
  • PY61 ● Pigment Yellow 61
  • PY62 - Azo Yellow 62
  • PY65 ●●●● Hansa Yellow 3RN
  • PY73 ●● Arylide Yellow GX
  • PY74 ●●●●● Arylide Yellow 5GX
  • PY75 ● Arylide Yellow
  • PY81 ● Diarylide Yellow H10G
  • PY83 ●●●●● Diarylide Yellow HR
  • PY87 ● Diarylide Yellow 1285
  • PY93 ●● Disazo Yellow 3G
  • PY95 ● Disazo Yellow GR
  • PY97 ●● Diarylide Yellow FGL
  • PY98 - Diarylide Yellow
  • PY100 ● Tartrazine Lake
  • PY101 ● Lumogen Yellow
  • PY104 ● FD&C Yellow 6
  • PY108 ●● Anthrapyrimidine Yellow
  • PY109 ●● Isoindole Yellow
  • PY110 ●●● Isoindolinone Yellow
  • PY111 ● Irgalite Yellow F4G
  • PY113 ● Disazo Yellow 10HG
  • PY116 - Helio Fast Yellow ER
  • PY117 ● Paliotol Yellow
  • PY119 ●● Zinc Iron Yellow
  • PY120 ●● PV Fast Yellow H2G
  • PY126 ● Diarylide Yellow DGR
  • PY128 ●● Azo Condensation Yellow
  • PY129 ●●●● Irgazin Yellow
  • PY138 ●● Quinophthalone Yellow
  • PY139 ●● Isoindoline Yellow
  • PY147 ● Pigment Yellow 147
  • PY150 ●●●● Nickel Azo Yellow
  • PY151 ●● Benzimidazolone Yellow H4G
  • PY152 Diarylide Yellow 152
  • PY153 ●● Nickel Dioxime Yellow
  • PY154 ●●●● Benzimidazolone Yellow 154
  • PY155 ●● Benzimidazolone Yellow 155
  • PY156 ● Benzimidazolone Yellow 156
  • PY157 ● Daipyroxide Yellow
  • PY159 ●● Zirconium Praesodymium Silicate Yellow
  • PY164 ●● Manganese Antimony Titanium Buff Rutile
  • PY165 - Sanyo Fast Yellow F5G
  • PY168 ● Azo Yellow 168
  • PY170 ● Pigment Yellow FRN
  • PY175 ●● Benzimidazolone Yellow H6G
  • PY179 ● Pigment Yellow 179
  • PY180 ● Benzimidazolone Yellow, PV Fast Yellow HG
  • PY181 ● Benzimidazo Golden, PV Fast Yellow H3R
  • PY182 ● Sandorin Yellow
  • PY183 ● Paliotol Yellow K227
  • PY184 ●●●● Bismuth Vanadate Yellow
  • PY194 Novoperm Yellow F2G
  • PY206 ● Pigment Yellow 206
  • PY213 ● Yellow H5G
  • PY214 - PV Fast Yellow H9G
  • PY216 ●● Solaplex Yellow
  • PY223 ● MayaCrom Yellow Y2351RS
  • PY224 MayaCrom Yellow Y2300F
  • PY227 ● NTP Yellow

PM — Metallic

  • PM1 ●● Aluminum Powder
  • PM2 ●● Bronze Powder