We developed Cool Violet as a way of addressing a big gap in color space in the region of blue-violet. When you look at single-pigment violets—Cobalt, Ultramarine, Manganese, and Dioxazine—they’re all relatively close in color space. Manganese is the warmest and most red-leaning of the lot, and also among the weakest in tint strength. If we want a cooler, blue-leaning violet we’ve got Dioxazine which carries the highest of tinting strengths and doesn’t veer far from true, central violet.
For our Cool Violet, we pushed Dioxazine Purple into blue-violet territory, moderated its overpowering strength, and gave it more opacity with the addition of Ultramarine Blue. Then we lightened it and brought out the blue-violet with Titanium White—placing it in color space at Munsell 10PB and filling a huge gap in the violets available to artists.
Pigment: PV23, PB29, PW6
Vehicle: Alkali refined linseed oil
Lightfastness I, Series 2, Opaque
Color Temperature: Cool