Paint Equivalents

Liquitex to Warcolours paint conversion chart

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

60 of the 105 Liquitex colours below have an equivalent in Warcolours within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 12 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 4.7. The 45 gaps are not spread evenly: 8 of them are blues, so that is the corner of the Liquitex range Warcolours does not answer.

LiquitexWarcoloursΔE
Alizarin Crimson Hue Permanent White 1.3
Bright Aqua Green One-coat Turquoise 7.1
Brilliant Blue Marine 3 2.3
Brilliant Purple Transparent Violet 8.6
Brilliant Yellow Green Olive 2 8.4
Bronze Yellow Transparent Ochre 9.9
Burnt Sienna Transparent White 1.4
Burnt Umber Transparent White 0.8
Cadmium-free Orange Orange 3 4.6
Cadmium-free Red Deep Red 4 3.8
Cadmium-free Red Light Metallic Red 3.7
Cadmium-free Red Medium Red 2 2.8
Cadmium-free Yellow Deep Yellow 5 4.6
Cadmium-free Yellow Light Yellow 4 3.7
Cadmium-free Yellow Medium Ochre 3 3.9
Cerulean Blue Marine 4 5.9
Cerulean Blue Hue Turquoise 4 9.7
Chromium Oxide Green Olive 4 7.0
Deep Magenta Pink 5 3.6
Deep Violet Purple 5 8.1
Dioxazine Purple Transparent White 1.7
Emerald Green Green 5 4.6
Fluorescent Blue Marine 2 3.2
Fluorescent Green Emerald 2 2.6
Fluorescent Orange Orange 3 5.5
Fluorescent Pink Transparent Red 5.5
Fluorescent Red Metallic Crimson 4.9
Fluorescent Yellow Metallic Green 5.2
Green Deep Permanent Emerald 5 6.9
Green Gold Olive 5 10.1
Hooker’s Green Deep Hue Permanent Turquoise 5 8.0
Hooker’s Green Hue Permanent Transparent White 3.0
Indantherene Blue Purple 5 8.6
Indian Yellow Ochre 5 2.6
Indigo Cool Grey 5 6.4
Iridescent Antique Gold Transparent Ochre 2.7
Iridescent Black Cool Grey 5 5.3
Iridescent Bright Gold Transparent White 2.6
Iridescent Bright Silver Metallic Silver 2.5
Iridescent Rich Bronze Sepia 7.8
Iridescent Rich Copper Metallic Copper 7.0
Iridescent Rich Gold Transparent Ochre 10.2
Iridescent Rich Silver Transparent White 1.7
Iridescent Rose Gold Transparent Brown 8.0
Iridescent White Metallic White 4.7
Ivory Black Transparent Black 3.0
Light Bismuth Yellow Ochre 1 3.0
Light Blue Permanent Turquoise 1 10.6
Light Blue Violet Transparent Marine 6.5
Light Emerald Green Green 4 6.8
Light Green Permanent Metallic Emerald 7.8
Light Phthalocyanine Green Blue 1 6.4
Light Pink Transparent White 1.8
Manganese Blue Hue Marine 5 7.1
Mars Black Transparent Black 3.1
Medium Magenta Pink 3 4.5
Muted Green Emerald 5 8.8
Muted Grey Metallic Black 1.0
Muted Pink Brown 4 4.9
Muted Turquoise Blue Grey 5 4.8
Muted Violet Brown 5 7.1
Naphthol Crimson Red 4 3.4
Naphthol Red Light Red 2 3.7
Naples Yellow Hue Ochre 3 5.3
Neutral Gray 5 Warm Grey 3 4.0
Parchment Ochre 1 3.0
Payne's Gray Transparent White 2.2
Phthalocyanine Blue Green Shade Transparent White 1.1
Phthalocyanine Blue Red Shade Blue 5 9.6
Phthalocyanine Green Blue Shade Transparent White 2.0
Phthalocyanine Green Yellow Shade Emerald 5 2.5
Prism Violet Purple 5 7.0
Prussian Blue Hue Blue Grey 5 4.6
Pyrrole Crimson Red 4 6.9
Pyrrole Orange Orange 4 4.8
Pyrrole Red Vermilion 2.9
Quinacridone Blue Violet Purple 5 4.7
Quinacridone Crimson Red 4 4.7
Quinacridone Magenta Pink 5 7.9
Quinacridone Red Brown 2 1.9
Quinacridone Red-orange Red 4 6.3
Raw Sienna Transparent White 1.7
Raw Umber Transparent White 2.2
Red Oxide Metallic Dark Copper 3.2
Sap Green Permanent Olive 5 10.4
Titanium White Transparent White 1.6
Transparent Burnt Sienna Metallic Black Copper 3.1
Transparent Burnt Umber Warm Grey 5 8.7
Transparent Orange One-coat Red 3.0
Transparent Raw Sienna Sepia 7.7
Transparent Raw Umber Warm Grey 4 9.2
Transparent Viridian Hue Emerald 4 4.9
Turner’s Yellow Ochre 4 3.4
Turquoise Deep Blue Grey 5 6.9
Ultramarine Blue Green Shade Blue 5 4.5
Ultramarine Blue Red Shade Blue 5 6.7
Unbleached Titanium Transparent White 1.8
Van Dyke Red Transparent Black 8.8
Viridian Hue Permanent Emerald 5 8.9
Vivid Lime Green Olive 3 6.3
Vivid Red Orange Orange 4 4.7
Yellow Light Hansa Yellow 3 2.8
Yellow Medium Azo Fluorescent Orange 3.1
Yellow Orange Azo Raw Sienna 5.6
Yellow Oxide Ochre 5 2.2

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