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