Pastel Match — Soft Pastel Colour Equivalents

1 Source brand

Source brand

2 Pastel number

Pastel number

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Up to three usable substitutes per range — and a plain “no equivalent” where there is none.

Matched by measured colour difference

Catalogue coverage. This version contains twenty-four pastel ranges. Matches use the spectrophotometry published by Paul Centore in A colour survey of artist’s pastels, Journal of the International Colour Association (2016) 15, 42–59, where an identifier is confirmed; other entries fall back to documented digital charts. Where a measurement exists the swatch is drawn from it, so the square you see is the colour being compared; the most saturated pigments sit outside what a screen can show and are approximated. Elsewhere the swatch is a sample taken from the manufacturer’s chart. Current availability is approximate. Blue Earth, Great American and Mount Vision are historical measured ranges whose current availability has not been verified.

Pastel Match - Soft Pastel Colour Equivalents

Find the nearest match to any pastel across 24 professional ranges - Unison, Sennelier, Schmincke, Rembrandt, Terry Ludwig, Blockx, Mungyo and more

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