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Charvin colour chart / Nuancier couleur, July 2024 (PDF, Charvin Arts downloads page) - pages 3-6 Extra-Fine Oil (177 colours), 8-10 Fine Oil (150), 12-13 Extra-Fine Acrylic (106); names in French and English as printed; PV23RS read as PV23, 'PB23RS' (indigos) as PV23, PBK111 as PBk11, PBKK7 as PBk7, Y35 as PY35, P013/P020 as PO13/PO20, PR48-4 as PR48:4; the oil tints list no white; metallic (mica) colours and acrylic Pourpre ('PW/PR122/PV23RS') left out; extra-fine oil 'Ocre jaune clair' printed with code 130 over 139, read as 139; oil colours: the chart omits titanium white in tints, so the 16 oil colours per line whose acrylic version contains PW6 but whose oil entry has no white (e.g. Fleur de lin, Rose Eva, Hale) are left out rather than shown with a wrong composition

System3 Original Acrylic colour chart (Daler-Rowney catalogue 2026, PDF); pigments as printed; 'PR101 Trans' read as PR101 (a repeated PR101 kept once); metallic imitation colours left out, fluorescent colours left out (no Colour Index name); Warm Grey 'Pk11' read as PBk11, Cadmium Red Deep Hue 'PRY83' read as PY83

System3 Heavy Body Acrylic colour chart, Georgian Oil Colour colour chart, Artists' Oil Colour colour chart, Artists' Watercolour colour chart (Daler-Rowney catalogue 2026, PDF); pigments as printed; 'PR101 Trans' read as PR101 (a repeated PR101 kept once)

Cryla Artists' Acrylic colour chart (Daler-Rowney catalogue 2026, PDF); pigments as printed; 'PR101 Trans' read as PR101 (a repeated PR101 kept once); metallic imitation colours left out; Pyrrole Scarlet 'PR225' read as PR255

Aquafine Watercolour colour chart (Daler-Rowney catalogue 2026, PDF); pigments as printed; 'PR101 Trans' read as PR101 (a repeated PR101 kept once); metallic imitation colours left out

Artist's Oil Colors - colour pages with pigments (Colour Index names as printed; 'PBK' read as PBk)

1980 Oil Colors - colour pages with pigments (Colour Index names as printed; 'PBK11' read as PBk11)

New Colors 2026 - new Artist Grade and 1980 colours with pigments (Hot Pink and Hot Violet left out: fluorescent pigment without a Colour Index name)

Golden Heavy Body Acrylics tech-data, Williamsburg Artist Oil Colors tech-data, OPEN Acrylic Color product pages, Pigment Detail tables, QoR Watercolor product pages, Pigment Detail tables (goldenartistcolors.com)

Holbein Artists' Oil Colors - technical data sheet (HOC TDS, PDF, Holbein Artist Materials, Holbein's US company): 'Color Index Name' column, codes are the 'Ref No.' (first one for whites sold in two sizes); pigments split over two lines of the table (Cinnabar Green, Cinnabar Green Light, Emerald Green Nova) joined in printed order

Holbein Heavy Body Acrylic - technical data sheet (HAU TDS, PDF, Holbein Artist Materials): 'Color Index Name' column; Luminous colours (fluorescent dyes, no pigment Colour Index) left out; 'Hansa Yallow Light' read as Hansa Yellow Light

Holbein Artist Watercolor - technical data sheet (HWC TDS, PDF, Holbein Artist Materials): 'Color Index Name' column; codes are the 5 ml 'Ref No.'; '(D)' (discontinued, sold while stocks last) and '(N)' markers removed from names; colours marked DISC/not available and fluorescent colours (dyes) left out

Lefranc Bourgeois - Nouvelle gamme Huile Fine, 48 nuances (trade brochure PDF, Colart France, January 2024) - colour chart on PDF pages 9-10, names in French and English as printed; PB15:0 read as PB15; Argent and Or (pigment printed only as 'MICAS') left out

Lefranc Bourgeois Extra-Fine Oil Range brochure, English (PDF dated 08/02/2017, file named 'colour chart 2020', hosted by Senior Art Supplies; fetched through the Wayback Machine) - 120-colour chart on PDF pages 18-19; the eight 'cadmium-free' colours (889-896) and Iridescent white, Copper, Bronze, Gold and Renaissance gold are printed without pigments and left out; Olive green printed with code 451, given as 541 as in the French brochure; differences with the French brochure of the same range: Japanese green deep 537 PY138 PG7 PW6 (French: PY28/PG7/PW6), Naples yellow 816 PBr24 PW5 (French: PBr24/PW4), Carmine lake 343 PV19 (French: PR19); the chart is followed

Lefranc Bourgeois Huile extra-fine, brochure de vente (PDF, 2017, from lefrancbourgeois.com, Wayback Machine copy) - French colour names of the 120-colour chart on PDF page 10 (used for nameFr only)

Lefranc Bourgeois Flashe Biosourced - Digital Toolkit, English (PDF, Colart, April 2025) - full Flashe chart (92 colours, with the 16 bio-based ones) on PDF page 10, names in French and English as printed (words run together in the PDF, spaced here); PB15:0 read as PB15; Lemon yellow, Chrome green, Veronese green hue and Spring green printed with PY4, kept as printed; fluorescent colours, the 'MICAS' iridescents and the cadmium-free colours (889, 919, 895), printed without pigments, left out

Lefranc Bourgeois Nuancier - Nouvelle gamme de couleurs acrylique pour artistes (L&B 6647 Fine Acrylic Colour Chart FR, PDF 2017, from lefrancbourgeois.com, Wayback Machine copy); English names from the matching EN chart (LB-6647-Fine-Acrylic-Colour-Chart-EN.pdf); PB15:0 read as PB15 and PB15.3 as PB15:3; Argent and Or ('NACRE') left out

Lefranc Bourgeois Linel Gouache Extra-Fine colour chart, English (PDF, July 2020, from lefrancbourgeois.com, Wayback Machine copy; image only, read from the rendered page); French names from the matching FR chart (LB-LINEL-GOUACHE-COLOUR-CHART-FR.pdf), same pigments; PB15:0 read as PB15, 'Ultamarine' as Ultramarine; the five cadmium-free colours and Turquoise deep (no pigment printed), Tyrian rose ('FLUOS/FR14') and Silver, Gold, Copper ('MICAS') left out

Lefranc Bourgeois Nuancier Aquarelle (PDF, July 2023, from lefrancbourgeois.com, Wayback Machine copy); English names from the matching 'Watercolour colour chart' (LB-Water-colour-colour-chart.pdf); the chart does not name the line (40 colours); the 'cadmium' colours are printed with organic pigments only, Indigo and Payne's grey with the same pigments, Chinese white with PW5; Dioxazine violet 231, printed 'PR255-PY65' (the pigments of Light cadmium red), left out

Liquitex product pages, Pigment Code field (liquitex.com)

LUKAS 1862 Oil Colour Chart DE-EN (PDF, lukas.eu download resources, 2025); 'PR101 Trans.' read as PR101; gold and silver metallic (pearlescent pigment) left out; Raw Umber printed as PR101 alone (an iron red) is left out as a likely misprint

LUKAS Studio Oil Colour Chart DE-EN (PDF, lukas.eu download resources, 2020); 'PR101 Trans.' read as PR101

LUKAS Cryl Studio Colour Chart DE-EN (PDF, lukas.eu download resources, 2023); 'PR101 Trans' read as PR101, 'Pbr7' as PBr7; metallic, fluorescent and glow-in-the-dark colours left out (no Colour Index pigment given)

LUKAS Cryl Terzia Colour Chart DE-EN (PDF, lukas.eu download resources, 2020); 'PR101 Trans.' read as PR101; gold and silver (coated mica) left out

LUKAS Aquarell 1862 Colour Chart DE-EN (PDF, lukas.eu download resources, 2020); 'PBR24' read as PBr24; Cobalt Violet (strontium phosphate, no Colour Index name given) and Gold (pearlescent pigment) left out

Maimeri general catalogue 2024 (PDF Catalogo_Maimeri_2024, maimeri.it downloads) - colour charts on PDF pages 17 (Maimeri Puro, 83 colours), 27 (Classico, 77 colours, and Terre Grezze d'Italia), 45 (Polycolor, 54 colours), 57 (MaimeriBlu, 90 colours); 'Nat.BK6' read as NBk6, repeated pigments and 'PY42+PR101' blends listed once; metallic colours (PW20 mica) and MaimeriBlu Payne's Grey ('Vat Blue1', no pigment name) left out

Michael Harding Artists Oil Colours - Paint Colours and Materials Brochure (PDF, michaelharding.co.uk, file of 2017/2022, Web Archive copy of 25 Oct 2022); 'Colour Index No' column, 'PW 6.1' read as PW6:1 and 'PY 1.1' as PY1:1; Lead Tin Yellow Light and Lemon ('Type 1', no Colour Index) left out

Old Holland Classic Oilcolours - Colour Chart and Pigment Identification (Colour Index), 2020 (PDF, Old Holland, hosted by Denis Beaux-Arts); names from the colour chart page, codes are the colour numbers without the price-series letter; PBL read as PBk, PBR as PBr; PR177-PV19-PV19 and other evident misprints replaced by the 2018 Old Holland brochure (colours 6, 7, 136, 163)

Old Holland Classic Oil Colours - Drying time & Transparency, with Colour Index (PDF brochure, Old Holland, 2018)

New Masters Classic Acrylic Colours - Colour Chart and Pigment Identification (PDF brochure, Old Holland, 2018); colour numbers without the series letter; Blood Red and Quinacridone Magenta (special blends, no Colour Index), Old Holland Green-Gold (printed '+PY129') and the iridescent, interference and metal colours (mica) left out

Old Holland Classic Watercolours - Colour Chart and Pigment Identification (PDF brochure, Old Holland, 2018); colour numbers checked against the chart page (Bright Violet 193, Italian Brown Pink Lake 331, Transparent Oxide Red Lake 334, Mars Orange Red 337; no. 163 printed as Cadmium Red Scarlet in the table is Alizarin Crimson Lake Extra on the chart); Golden Barok Red PB23 read as PBr23; Old Holland Blue Grey PW4 printed twice, kept once

Studio Acrylics High Viscosity - Product Information (PDF, Pébéo, 08/07/2016, hosted by Jackson's Art); pigments as printed, P013 read as PO13 and PB15:0 as PB15

Royal Talens website product pages (Pigments / Colour number specs per variant)

MUSSINI - Finest artists' resin-oil colours, series 10, Norma Professional - Finest artists' oil colours, series 11, PRIMAcryl - Finest Artists' Acrylic Colours, Series 13, HORADAM AQUARELL (colour chart with pigments)

AKADEMIE Acryl color - Fine Artists' Acrylic Colours, Series 23 (colour chart with pigments)

HORADAM AQUARELL brochure (PDF, Schmincke, hosted by creativ-discount.de) - used for pigment order

Norma Professional brochure D/EN (PDF, Schmincke, hosted on shopify cdn) - used for pigment order

Sennelier general catalogue, English (PDF X20001-02, from ressources.sennelier.com, registered access) - colour charts on PDF pages 41-42 (Artists' oil), 46 (Rive Gauche), 50 (Oil Stick), 63-64 (Artists' acrylic), 83-84 (L'Aquarelle), 96 (Gouache); printed page numbers are one lower; PBk8/9 read as PBk9, oil stick 'PR 15:4' read as PB15:4 and 'PG 35' as PY35

Artists' Oil Colour, Winton Oil Colour, Professional Acrylic Colour, Galeria Acrylic (composition table)

W&N Artists' Oil Colour Composition & Permanence Chart (colour codes)