Historical names

Cobalts

Why do cobalt paints have different colors?

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Hue and Permanents

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Rose Madder

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Hooker’s Greens

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Van Dycks

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Payne’s Greys

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Jane’s Grey and Jane’s Black

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Green Golds

Verditers

Mauves

Sulfur pigments, Aluminosilicates, Ultramarines

Quinacridones

Cadmiums

Coppers

Phthalocyanines

Iron oxides: Umbers, Siennas, Ochre, Prussian Blue, and Caput Mortuum

Manganese

Carmine

Titaniums

Chromiums

Carbons

Sienna

Ochre

Umber

Naples Yellows

Prussian Blues

Chinese White, Orange, and Red

French Ultramarine, Ochre, Cerulean, and Vermilions

Venetian Red and Yellow

Gamboge

English Reds

Cyprus Umbers

Indian Red and Yellow

Burgundy Red and Yellow

Italian Sienna, Ochre, and Red

Pompeii Reds

German Umbers

Bordeaux

Lunars

Mars

Genuine

Earth and Terre

Sap

Sepias

Operas

Graphites

Buffs

Neutral Tints

Perylenes

Azos

Alizarins

Nickels

Pyrrols

Hansas

Bismuths

Dioxazines

Lakes

Indanthrone and Indanthrenes

Grey and Gray, Brown, Forest, Shadow, Urban

Gold and Golden

Turquoise, Azure, and Teals

Pinks

Purples

Lemons

Ceruleans

Scarlets

Crimsons

Olive

Indigos

Magentas

Viridians

Ivory

Vermilions

Royal and Imperial

Maroons

Greenish and Bluish

Lavenders

Aureolin and Aureoline

Jaune

Sea

Lilacs

Potter’s

Emeralds

Malachites

Sky

Isoindolinones

Deep, Medium, and Light colors

Raw and Burnt paints