Paint Equivalents

Liquitex to Vallejo paint conversion chart

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

100 of the 105 Liquitex colours below have an equivalent in Vallejo within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 48 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 2.3. The 5 gaps are not spread evenly: 3 of them are greens, so that is the corner of the Liquitex range Vallejo does not answer.

LiquitexVallejoΔE
Alizarin Crimson Hue Permanent Arctic White 1.3
Bright Aqua Green Light Avocado 1.0
Brilliant Blue Fluorescent Blue 2.7
Brilliant Purple Lustful Purple 1.3
Brilliant Yellow Green Green Fluorescent 3.1
Bronze Yellow Green Brown 0.8
Burnt Sienna White Glaze 0.6
Burnt Umber White Gold 1.0
Cadmium-free Orange Light Orange 1.0
Cadmium-free Red Deep Velvet Red 2.8
Cadmium-free Red Light Hot Orange 1.4
Cadmium-free Red Medium Bloody Red 1.2
Cadmium-free Yellow Deep Filthy Brown 0.7
Cadmium-free Yellow Light Light Yellow 2.9
Cadmium-free Yellow Medium Yellow 2.6
Cerulean Blue True Blue 2.6
Cerulean Blue Hue Turquoise 3.2
Chromium Oxide Green Heavy Green 3.6
Deep Magenta Dark Rosewood 2.5
Deep Violet Midnight Purple 9.4
Dioxazine Purple White Glaze 0.2
Emerald Green Plantation Pine 2.9
Fluorescent Blue Fluorescent Blue 4.0
Fluorescent Green Ghost Green 5.8
Fluorescent Orange Sunset Orange 3.9
Fluorescent Pink Fluorescent Scarlet 3.5
Fluorescent Red Pumpkin 3.1
Fluorescent Yellow Yellow Wash 3.6
Green Deep Permanent Olive Green 3.2
Green Gold Italian Tank Crew 4.6
Hooker’s Green Deep Hue Permanent Camouflage Dark Green 5.5
Hooker’s Green Hue Permanent Steel 0.0
Indantherene Blue Royal Purple 1.8
Indian Yellow Ochre 3.5
Indigo Night Blue 1.6
Iridescent Antique Gold Middle Stone 0.9
Iridescent Black Continental Blue 0.8
Iridescent Bright Gold White Glaze 1.0
Iridescent Bright Silver Silver 1.6
Iridescent Rich Bronze Wasteland Brown 2.8
Iridescent Rich Copper Red Leather 1.3
Iridescent Rich Gold Military Yellow 2.4
Iridescent Rich Silver Silver 1.3
Iridescent Rose Gold Athena Skin 4.6
Iridescent White White Grey 1.9
Ivory Black Black Thick Mud 1.7
Light Bismuth Yellow Polished Gold 4.5
Light Blue Permanent Sea Aqua 1.9
Light Blue Violet Blueberry 7.0
Light Emerald Green Fluorescent Green 6.0
Light Green Permanent Scorpy Green 3.9
Light Phthalocyanine Green Indian Turquoise 3.0
Light Pink White Gold 1.3
Manganese Blue Hue Wagram Blue 2.5
Mars Black Black Thick Mud 1.7
Medium Magenta Warlord Purple 2.6
Muted Green Dark Green 2.9
Muted Grey Russian Thick Mud 0.0
Muted Pink Muddy Ground 2.1
Muted Turquoise Charcoal Grey 1.7
Muted Violet Black Violet 1.1
Naphthol Crimson Carmine Red 3.2
Naphthol Red Light Red RLM23 1.5
Naples Yellow Hue Dark Flesh 1.5
Neutral Gray 5 Parched Grass (Late) 2.3
Parchment Bone White 3.8
Payne's Gray White Gold 1.3
Phthalocyanine Blue Green Shade Silver 0.4
Phthalocyanine Blue Red Shade Ultramarine Blue 1.6
Phthalocyanine Green Blue Shade Cold White 0.2
Phthalocyanine Green Yellow Shade Olive Green 2.3
Prism Violet Royal Purple 0.6
Prussian Blue Hue Abyssal Turquoise 1.9
Pyrrole Crimson Red 4.9
Pyrrole Orange Martian Orange 1.2
Pyrrole Red Berry Red 0.6
Quinacridone Blue Violet Midnight Purple 3.6
Quinacridone Crimson Scarlet Red 3.6
Quinacridone Magenta Crimson 3.4
Quinacridone Red Red 2.5
Quinacridone Red-orange Scarlet Red 4.7
Raw Sienna Silver 1.3
Raw Umber White Gold 1.3
Red Oxide Dwarf Skin 1.5
Sap Green Permanent Extra Dark Green 4.5
Titanium White Silver 1.0
Transparent Burnt Sienna Dark Chocolate 3.4
Transparent Burnt Umber Charred Brown 2.9
Transparent Orange Red 1.1
Transparent Raw Sienna Parasite Brown 1.9
Transparent Raw Umber Olive Brown 3.0
Transparent Viridian Hue Jade Green 2.1
Turner’s Yellow Yellow Ochre 3.3
Turquoise Deep Charcoal Grey 2.0
Ultramarine Blue Green Shade Navy Blue 5.0
Ultramarine Blue Red Shade Navy Blue 4.3
Unbleached Titanium Silver 0.4
Van Dyke Red Brown Splash Mud 2.4
Viridian Hue Permanent German Tank Crew I 2.1
Vivid Lime Green Bile 4.6
Vivid Red Orange Phoenix Orange 1.2
Yellow Light Hansa Light Yellow 2.3
Yellow Medium Azo Flat Yellow 1.2
Yellow Orange Azo Sun Yellow 2.7
Yellow Oxide Ochre 2.7