Golden paint equivalents

Every Golden paint on The Painters Desk (234 in all). Pick one to see its closest matches in the other brands. Swatch colours are estimates.

About Golden paints

Golden Artist Colors makes artist-grade acrylics in New York. Its Heavy Body paints are mostly single pigments, so they mix cleanly, and many miniature painters use them for wet blending and glazing alongside hobby paints. High Flow is the same pigments as a thin, ink-like acrylic for airbrushing, glazes and washes, with fluorescent, iridescent and interference colours too.

The Painters Desk lists 234 Golden paints in 2 ranges (Heavy Body Acrylics: 149, High Flow: 85). By type that is 121 opaque base and layer paints, 68 inks, glazes and transparents, 29 pearls, 16 fluorescents and effects.

How Golden compares to Citadel

41%of 121 opaque paints have a Citadel match under ΔE 6
68%have one under ΔE 10
7.1median ΔE to the nearest Citadel paint
0paints with a chart-listed Citadel equivalent

ΔE is the colour difference between two swatches (CIE76): under about 6 looks close side by side, over about 15 is a loose substitute. These figures compare our estimated swatches, so treat them as a guide, not a guarantee.

Some of the closest pairs:

Heavy Body Acrylics

High Flow

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