Paint Equivalents

Liquitex to FolkArt paint conversion chart

Every Liquitex paint with its closest FolkArt equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 105 rows, sorted by name.

78 of the 105 Liquitex colours below have an equivalent in FolkArt within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 25 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 3.2. The 27 gaps are not spread evenly: 7 of them are greens, so that is the corner of the Liquitex range FolkArt does not answer.

LiquitexFolkArtΔE
Alizarin Crimson Hue Permanent Wicker White 1.7
Bright Aqua Green Classic Green 8.2
Brilliant Blue Look at Me Blue 2.4
Brilliant Purple Lavender Lace 7.6
Brilliant Yellow Green Happy Green 3.1
Bronze Yellow Antique Gold 4.1
Burnt Sienna Wicker White 1.8
Burnt Umber Wicker White 1.4
Cadmium-free Orange Vivid Orange 8.3
Cadmium-free Red Deep Engine Red 1.9
Cadmium-free Red Light Autumn Leaves 2.6
Cadmium-free Red Medium Lipstick Red 1.0
Cadmium-free Yellow Deep Medium Yellow 4.8
Cadmium-free Yellow Light Bumblebee 5.2
Cadmium-free Yellow Medium Medium Yellow 3.7
Cerulean Blue Sapphire 2.1
Cerulean Blue Hue Turquoise Shimmer 2.8
Chromium Oxide Green Freshcut Grass 5.2
Deep Magenta Maroon 7.0
Deep Violet Red Violet 5.9
Dioxazine Purple Wicker White 1.5
Emerald Green Fresh Fern 4.3
Fluorescent Blue Medium Blue 4.7
Fluorescent Green Lime Green 7.6
Fluorescent Orange Mandarin Satin 6.9
Fluorescent Pink Fire Coral 5.0
Fluorescent Red Orange 7.4
Fluorescent Yellow Yellow 5.7
Green Deep Permanent Bright Green 6.7
Green Gold Forest Moss 4.4
Hooker’s Green Deep Hue Permanent Sap Green 6.4
Hooker’s Green Hue Permanent Dove 1.1
Indantherene Blue Eggplant 4.2
Indian Yellow Yellow Ochre 3.2
Indigo Midnight 3.5
Iridescent Antique Gold Bright Gold 3.8
Iridescent Black Pure Black 2.7
Iridescent Bright Gold Wicker White 2.1
Iridescent Bright Silver Pale Gray 2.2
Iridescent Rich Bronze Solid Bronze 1.3
Iridescent Rich Copper Pueblo 3.6
Iridescent Rich Gold Yellow Ochre 0.8
Iridescent Rich Silver Wicker White 1.7
Iridescent Rose Gold Calico Red 5.6
Iridescent White Titanium White 1.6
Ivory Black Pure Black 0.7
Light Bismuth Yellow Buttercream 4.7
Light Blue Permanent Ocean View 1.7
Light Blue Violet Wisteria 9.4
Light Emerald Green Fresh Foliage 6.0
Light Green Permanent Fresh Fern 6.3
Light Phthalocyanine Green Ocean View 6.1
Light Pink Wicker White 1.5
Manganese Blue Hue Turquoise 3.2
Mars Black Pure Black 0.0
Medium Magenta Bright Pink 2.2
Muted Green Emerald Green 2.7
Muted Grey Licorice 2.4
Muted Pink Maple Syrup 4.5
Muted Turquoise Peppercorn 3.4
Muted Violet Pure Magenta 3.0
Naphthol Crimson Lipstick Red 2.9
Naphthol Red Light Lipstick Red 6.2
Naples Yellow Hue Vivid Orange 3.8
Neutral Gray 5 Steel Gray 2.5
Parchment Buttercream 5.1
Payne's Gray Wicker White 1.3
Phthalocyanine Blue Green Shade Wicker White 2.3
Phthalocyanine Blue Red Shade Violet Pansy 2.7
Phthalocyanine Green Blue Shade Wicker White 1.2
Phthalocyanine Green Yellow Shade Bright Green 6.3
Prism Violet Eggplant 4.0
Prussian Blue Hue Indigo Night 1.5
Pyrrole Crimson Engine Red 0.9
Pyrrole Orange Glazed Carrots 3.5
Pyrrole Red Lipstick Red 5.0
Quinacridone Blue Violet Red Violet 4.6
Quinacridone Crimson Engine Red 2.6
Quinacridone Magenta Garnet 3.8
Quinacridone Red Lipstick Red 3.9
Quinacridone Red-orange Engine Red 2.4
Raw Sienna Wicker White 1.7
Raw Umber Wicker White 1.3
Red Oxide Terra Cotta 3.2
Sap Green Permanent Peridot 2.5
Titanium White Wicker White 1.8
Transparent Burnt Sienna Cinnamon 2.3
Transparent Burnt Umber Coffee Bean 0.9
Transparent Orange Lipstick Red 8.4
Transparent Raw Sienna English Mustard 5.6
Transparent Raw Umber Lemon Custard 3.4
Transparent Viridian Hue Holly Leaf 2.4
Turner’s Yellow Vivid Orange 2.5
Turquoise Deep Midnight Garden 4.4
Ultramarine Blue Green Shade Dioxazine Violet 1.9
Ultramarine Blue Red Shade Lavender 3.1
Unbleached Titanium Wicker White 1.3
Van Dyke Red Dark Brown 3.2
Viridian Hue Permanent Christmas Green 4.5
Vivid Lime Green Yellow Citron 4.0
Vivid Red Orange Glazed Carrots 3.2
Yellow Light Hansa Bumblebee 4.6
Yellow Medium Azo Medium Yellow 6.1
Yellow Orange Azo Dijon 6.9
Yellow Oxide Vivid Orange 2.7

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