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Naples Yellow

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

IndexPBr24

Color#F0D9A0

Tinting strength3/10

Opacityopaque

Lightfastnessexcellent

Dryingaverage

Low tinting strength, which means it will not overpower anything. Useful when you want a colour to sit back.

With white, step by step

pure #F0D9A0 6:1 #F3E2B4 3:1 #F5E6BE 2:1 #F5E9C5 1:1 #F7EDD1 1:2 #F7F1DB 1:3 #F8F2E0 1:6 #F8F4E7 pure #F8F7F3

From pure Naples Yellow on the left to titanium white on the right. Watch how much chroma you lose on the way — that is the cost of lightening with white, and the reason a tint often needs a trace of something warm putting back.

What to mix it with

These are the partners that take Naples Yellow furthest towards neutral, which makes them the ones you reach for when you need a shadow or a gray rather than a color.

with Mars Black quietest point #211F1E with Zinc White quietest point #FBFAF7 with Titanium White quietest point #F8F7F3 with Ivory Black quietest point #262321 with Payne’s Gray quietest point #657579 with Ultramarine quietest point #809CA6

Every pair

Titanium White Zinc White Lemon Yellow Cadmium Yellow Light Cadmium Yellow Deep Yellow Ochre Raw Sienna Cadmium Red Light Cadmium Red Deep Alizarin Crimson (permanent) Quinacridone Rose Indian Red Burnt Sienna Raw Umber Burnt Umber Ultramarine Cobalt Blue Cerulean Blue Phthalo Blue Prussian Blue Phthalo Green Viridian Chromium Oxide Green Dioxazine Purple Ivory Black Mars Black Payne’s Gray

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