All the colors of the rainbow!
Before visiting my family for the holidays this week, I took an inventory of all of my Prismacolor Premier colored pencils.
I scored a chart of the 132-pencil product line during a local art supply store caper, on which chart I circled the pencils I already possess.
Then I scanned the image and sampled each of the 132 color swatches in Photoshop for their hue, saturation and brightness values.
Photoshop measures hue along a 360° color wheel, where:0° = middle red; 30° = middle orange; 60° = middle yellow; 90° = yellow-green; 120° = middle green, 150° = teal;
180° = cyan, 210="dodger blue"; 240° = middle blue; 270° = violet; 300° = magenta; 330° = pink
Saturation is a scale of 100 (intense) to 0 (dull).
Brightness is a scale of 100 (light white) to 0 (dark black)
I'm reproducing the scan as well as the three HSB values for the 132 colored pencils here.
-- Color Name H S B
1 Cream 54 7 99
2 Ginger Root 55 37 91
3 Artichoke 57 81 78
4 Lemon Yellow 57 84 91
5 Canary Yellow 57 83 91
6 Yellowed Orange 57 80 91
7 Jasmine 56 44 93
8 Yellow Ochre 55 70 92
9 Spanish Orange 54 95 90
10 Goldenrod 52 85 87
11 Sunburst Yellow 40 81 77
12 Sand 40 70 77
13 Mineral Orange 31 77 69
14 Orange 26 82 64
15 Pale Vermilion 35 83 73
16 Pumpkin Orange 26 87 63
17 Poppy Red 24 83 61
18 Carmine Red 14 70 61
19 Scarlet Lake 10 85 52
20 Crimson Red 8 82 46
21 Crimson Lake 1 72 26
22 Magenta 343 18 40
23 Process Red 337 8 46
24 Mulberry 328 81 37
25 Hot Pink 334 38 70
26 Pink 350 45 65
27 Nectar 28 70 70
28 Blush Pink 25 28 86
29 Pink Rose 9 20 86
30 Light Peach 45 18 95
31 Peach Beige 45 38 92
32 Seashell Pink 38 55 83
33 Salmon Pink 41 46 88
34 Beige 43 45 87
35 Peach 35 56 78
36 Rosy Beige 15 20 78
37 Clay Rose 19 21 76
38 Beige Sienna 17 47 65
39 Chestnut 21 79 30
40 Raspberry 353 56 37
41 Mahogany Red 4 42 43
42 Dark Purple 359 43 32
43 Black Raspberry 345 71 15
44 Black Cherry 345 69 15
45 Greyed Lavender 310 9 86
46 Lavender 335 35 67
47 Lilac 334 29 57
48 Dahlia Purple 313 72 30
49 Parma Violet 272 32 52
50 Black Grape 260 64 15
51 Violet 282 41 24
52 Imperial Violet 248 46 48
53 Blue Violet Lake 252 60 20
54 Violet Blue 243 50 19
55 Ultramarine 234 61 30
56 China Blue 255 54 33
57 Copenhagen Blue 222 60 41
58 Electric Blue 201 40 78
59 Denim Blue 252 65 25
60 True Blue 214 60 48
61 Sky Blue Light 200 10 95
62 Light Cerulean Blue 206 36 76
63 Mediterranean Blue 216 62 52
64 Peacock Blue 206 67 45
65 Powder Blue 223 9 89
66 Caribbean Sea 222 27 70
67 Periwinkle 225 31 63
68 Cloud Blue 200 8 95
69 Blue Lake 246 39 45
70 Blue Slate 210 21 83
71 Indigo Blue 217 71 22
72 Non-Photo Blue 189 32 81
73 Light Aqua 168 36 75
74 Aquamarine 156 50 52
75 Light Green 111 27 78
76 Parrot Green 138 57 75
77 Pale Sage 65 15 95
78 Yellow Chartreuse 62 83 85
79 Chartreuse 67 76 81
80 Limepeel 70 76 78
81 Moss Green 76 57 45
82 Green Ochre 51 63 41
83 Spring Green 75 73 77
84 Apple Green 82 63 74
85 True Green 108 61 64
86 Kelly Green 95 65 68
87 Grass Green 131 71 62
88 Olive Green 119 55 53
89 Dark Green 130 60 39
90 Kelp Green 88 55 29
91 Sandbar Brown 47 65 39
92 Sepia 81 43 41
93 Marine Green 115 49 24
94 Celadon Green 117 11 88
95 Jade Green 151 27 76
96 Muted Turqoise 163 41 54
97 Peacock Green 165 60 45
98 Putty Beige 46 23 94
99 Light Umber 37 45 40
100 Chocolate 30 59 32
101 Burnt Ochre 32 70 57
102 Sienna Brown 39 70 51
103 Terra Cotta 29 76 45
104 Henna 13 62 48
105 Tuscan Red 14 65 25
106 Expresso 47 38 62
107 Dark Umber 46 40 21
108 Dark Brown 50 45 34
109 Warm Grey 10% Neutral 0 100
110 Warm Grey 20% Neutral 0 99
111 Warm Grey 30% 326 3 93
112 Warm Grey 50% 322 7 84
113 Warm Grey 70% 336 14 44
114 Warm Grey 90% 348 18 21
115 Cool Grey 10% Neutral 0 100
116 Cool Grey 20% Neutral 0 99
117 Cool Grey 30% 210 4 95
118 Cool Grey 50% 210 7 86
119 Cool Grey 70% 200 20 45
120 Cool Grey 90% 192 14 22
121 Black 30 12 8
122 French Grey 10% 19 3 99
123 French Grey 20% 19 3 95
124 French Grey 30% 39 9 84
125 French Grey 50% 4 14 62
126 French Grey 70% 10 15 45
127 French Grey 90% 11 16 21
128 Slate Grey 195 33 39
129 White Neutral 0 100
130 Metallic Silver Neutral N/A 72
131 Metallic Gold 55 47 68
132 Bronze 51 47 74
Fun facts
-A number of Prismacolors "green" are in fact dark-valued yellows that appear subjectively green to most of our brains!
-Prismacolor offers a number of colors marketed as slightly more orange variants of their yellow colors, but these are in fact no more orange but are simply slightly more dull/desaturated than their supposedly more yellowish counterparts!
-Prismacolor's most intense/saturated color is Spanish Orange, followed by Pumpkin Orange and Scarlet Lake!
-"Black Raspberry" has the highest intensity to value ratio among all the colors sampled, making it Prismacolor's "deepest" color!
-"Non-photo Blue," Prismacolor's intended Cyan color in fact leans 10° towards a middle blue than a true cyan!
-"Crimson Lake" and "Dark Purple" are actually Prismacolor's closest to a true middle red, but the former is so dark and the latter so dark and desaturated that they appear more purplish than other colored pencil offerings (such as "Crimson Red") that are actually less red in hue!
-Prismacolor's Black has a slight orangish tint!