What is the difference between Luxion Purple and Fluid Pink?

ΔE 27 (loose). Fluid Pink is more saturated, warmer. Swatch colours are estimates.

Luxion Purple vs Fluid Pink

Luxion Purple

Brand: Citadel / Warhammer
Range: Colour: Contrast
Type: a one-coat contrast-style paint
Swatch: #6a4a9a (estimate)

Fluid Pink

Brand: Vallejo
Range: Xpress Color
Code: 72.459
Type: a one-coat contrast-style paint
Swatch: #9c3581 (estimate)

How close are they?

ΔE 27.0, loose: different enough that you should pick on purpose. Fluid Pink is more saturated, warmer than Luxion Purple.

Can I use Fluid Pink instead of Luxion Purple?

Not as a straight swap; see the closer alternatives below. Loose match (ΔE 27). Fluid Pink is more saturated, warmer than Luxion Purple.

Can I use Luxion Purple instead of Fluid Pink?

The same difference applies the other way round: Luxion Purple is more muted, cooler.

ΔE is the colour difference between our two swatch estimates: under about 6 is close, over about 15 is loose. Real paints also differ in finish, coverage and how they thin, so test before you commit.

See Luxion Purple on the colour wheel See Fluid Pink on the colour wheel

Other Vallejo paints close to Luxion Purple

Luxion Purple vs Storm Blue (72.412)Xpress Color · ΔE 18, loose · closer than Fluid Pink
Luxion Purple vs Vampiric Purple (72.461)Xpress Color · ΔE 24, loose · closer than Fluid Pink
Luxion Purple vs Mystic Blue (72.411)Xpress Color · ΔE 25, loose · closer than Fluid Pink

Other Citadel paints close to Fluid Pink

Fluid Pink vs Volupus PinkColour: Contrast · ΔE 23, loose · closer than Luxion Purple
Fluid Pink vs Doomfire MagentaColour: Contrast · ΔE 28, loose
Fluid Pink vs Shyish PurpleColour: Contrast · ΔE 28, loose

All matches: Luxion Purple equivalents · Fluid Pink equivalents