Talk:Payne's grey

Does anyone know what pigments go into Payne's grey?


 * OK, answered that one.

Who was Payne?


 * A payne-ter perhaps? ;)


 * www.chrisbeetles.com refers to two books with information about William Payne (1760-1830).


 * Peter Hunt, Payne’s Devon, Exeter: Devon Books, 1986
 * David Japes, William Payne: A Plymouth Experience, Exeter: Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1992


 * Anyone enthusiastic with access to a decent library can check these books and cite them on the artcle page if they are any good. The Chris Beetles link may be ephemeral and temporary.

I'm beginning to suspect that different manufacturers have slightly different formulations of Payne's grey. Some of them might be bluer than others. Any comments on my suspicions?

--Publunch 02:47, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * You are almost certainly correct. For example, the Payne's grey produced by Winsor and Newton gives the chemical composition as Copper phthalocyanine, Carbon Black and Quincridone. Copper phthalocyanine is Monastral Blue, a different pigment to the ultramarine described in the article. Carbon Black is black, Quincridone is redish. It is however impossible that William Payne, painting in the 18th century, could have used this exact formulation, since the phthalocyanine pigments weren't discovered until the 1920s.It might be worth adding a sentence or two about modern versions sometimes containing slightly different pigments. Eigenbanana (talk) 18:10, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

I apologize for adding the HEX to it. I didn't have the HSV on Adobe but I hope that's the right cordinates.

Back again.
MrColorTableArt 02:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC)MrColorTableArtMrColorTableArt 02:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC)Yeah Payne's Grey has a little tinge of blue in it. That's been my favorite color I use for darker clothing colors.

Why is this colour described as #536878 on List_of_colors but there’s no hex code on this page? --Focusforaword (talk) 16:26, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

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