For your knowledge, it’s advisable to draw up your own colour chart so that you can get to know the actual colours of your pencils. You will then be able to see how your pencil performs on the papers that you use for your drawings. Use this post together with our post on colour harmonies to help you choose the colours of your next artwork. As you can see, the expanded Caran d’Ache Luminance range of coloured pencils is made up of a variety of colours and neutrals. Only got a small set? So, if you’ve make your own charts – that’s great. But – as is practical, you might also have your charts in one physical place while you draw in another. You need to have access to the colours where you are – hopefully, you’ll be there with internet access and your mobile, tablet or laptop. Interactive Luminance colour chart If you have a set of the previous 76 range of pencils, you can find out more about them in a previous blog post.

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If you’d like to try this range of pencils, you can try a basic set of 12. We have analysed the small set, and provide colour swatches, and the colour recipes of 144 colours that you can make from the basic set. You can see the 144 Luminance colour recipes here. Make your own colour chart When searching for information, first use the global search button. Then use the column searches to refine your search. Caran d’Ache added 24 colours to their lightfast range of 76 coloured pencils. It is therefore a range of 100 lightfast coloured pencils. However, it takes a long time to make your own chart, and it usually is something that we don’t get around to doing. The search button on the right hand side above the table is the global search button and it searches all columns within the table. The search bar above each column searches for information with in that column.