We developed Cool Violet as a way of addressing a big gap in color space in the region of blue-violet. When you look at single-pigment violets—Cobalt, Ultramarine, Manganese, and Dioxazine—they’re all relatively close in color space. For our Cool Violet, we pushed Dioxazine Purple into blue-violet territory, moderated its overpowering strength, and gave it more opacity with the addition of Ultramarine Blue. Then we lightened it and brought out the blue-violet with Titanium White—placing it in color space at Munsell 10PB and filling a huge gap in the violets available to artists.
Pigment: PV23, PB29, PW6 Vehicle: Alkali refined linseed oil Lightfastness I, Series 2, Opaque Color Temperature: Cool
