Pigment pair · PBr24 + PR108

Mixing Naples Yellow and Cadmium Red Deep

Nine steps from one to the other, worked out with a spectral model rather than by averaging screen colors. Half and half gives #C62E1F. Click any step to open it in the mixer.

The full range, Naples Yellow to Cadmium Red Deep

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Ratios are parts by volume, the way you would put them out on a palette.

These two are close enough on the color wheel that they never cancel. Every mixture between them keeps its saturation, so this is a pair for building color, not for knocking it back.

The same range with white added

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Two parts titanium white to one part of the mixture above. White lifts the value but also takes the chroma down, which is why a tint is never simply a lighter version of the same color.

What you are working with

Pigment	Index	Strength	Opacity	Lightfast	In
Naples Yellow	PBr24	3/10	opaque	excellent	Oil
Cadmium Red Deep	PR108	6/10	opaque	excellent	Oil, Watercolor

Comes with white already in it. A quick route to soft light tints without reaching for titanium.

Deeper and cooler than cadmium red light, but still on the warm side.

Now do it with your own paints

This page assumes two tubes. The mixer works from everything on your palette at once, and from a color you pick out of your own photo.

Open in the mixer Start from a photo

Other pairs worth knowing

Naples Yellow and Dioxazine Purple Naples Yellow and Cadmium Red Light Naples Yellow and Mars Black Naples Yellow and Phthalo Blue Naples Yellow and Cerulean Blue Naples Yellow and Raw Sienna Cadmium Red Deep and Burnt Umber Cadmium Red Deep and Viridian Cadmium Red Deep and Titanium White Cadmium Red Deep and Phthalo Blue Cadmium Red Deep and Quinacridone Rose Cadmium Red Deep and Alizarin Crimson (permanent)

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