List of inorganic pigments

Purple pigments

• Ultramarine violet: - a synthetic or naturally occurring sulfur containing silicate mineral

• Han Purple: BaCuSi₂O₆.
• Phthalo blue: C₃₂H₁₆CuN₈.

• Cobalt Violet: cobaltous orthophosphate.

• Manganese violet: NH₄MnP₂O₇ Manganic ammonium pyrophosphate

• Purple of Cassius: dissolved gold suspended in tin dioxide - Au_x•SnO₂

  Blue pigments

• Ultramarine : a synthetic or naturally occurring sulfur containing silicate mineral - Na_8-10Al₆Si₆O₂₄S_2-4
• Persian blue: made by grinding up the mineral Lapis lazuli. The most important mineral component of lapis lazuli is lazurite, a feldspathoid silicate mineral with the formula _861–2.

• Cobalt Blue : cobalt aluminate
• Cerulean Blue : cobalt stannate

• Egyptian Blue: a synthetic pigment of calcium copper silicate. Thought to be the first synthetically produced pigment.
• Han Blue: BaCuSi₄O₁₀
• Azurite: cupric carbonate hydroxide ₂

• Prussian Blue : a synthetic inert pigment made of iron and cyanide: C₁₈Fe₇N₁₈

• YInMn Blue: a synthetic pigment discovered in 2009.
• Manganese Blue: Barium manganate sulfate

  Green pigments

• Cadmium Green: a light green pigment consisting of a mixture of Cadmium Yellow and Chrome green

• Chrome green : anhydrous Chromium oxide
• Viridian : hydrated Chromium oxide Cr₂O₃•xH₂O

• Cobalt green: also known as Rinman's green or Zinc green

• Malachite: cupric carbonate hydroxide
• Scheele’s Green : cupric arsenite

• Green earth: also known as terre verte and Verona green,]O₁₀

  Yellow pigments

• Orpiment: natural monoclinic arsenic sulfide,

• Primrose Yellow : Bismuth Vanadate,

• Cadmium Yellow : cadmium sulfide, which also occurs as the mineral greenockite.

• Chrome Yellow or Crocoite : lead chromate

• Aureolin or Cobalt Yellow : Potassium cobaltinitrite.

• Yellow Ochre : a naturally occurring clay of monohydrated ferric oxide

• Naples Yellow
• Lead-tin-yellow: PbSnO₄ or PbO₃

• Titanium Yellow : NiO·Sb₂O₃·20TiO₂

• Mosaic gold: stannic sulfide

• Zinc Yellow : Zinc chromate, a highly toxic substance with anti-corrosive properties which was historically most often used to paint over metals.

  Orange pigments

• Cadmium Orange : an intermediate between cadmium red and cadmium yellow: cadmium sulfoselenide.

• Chrome Orange: a now obscure pigment composed of a mixture of lead chromate and lead oxide.

  Red pigments

• Realgar: As₄S₄ - a highly toxic natural pigment

• Cadmium Red : cadmium sulfo-selenide

• Sanguine, Caput mortuum, Indian Red, Venetian Red, Oxide Red
• Red Ochre : anhydrous Fe₂O₃
• Burnt Sienna : a pigment produced by heating Raw Sienna.

• Minium : also known as red lead, lead tetroxide, Pb₃O₄

• Vermilion or Cinnabar : HgS

  Brown pigments

• Raw Umber : a natural clay pigment consisting of iron oxide, manganese oxide and aluminum oxide: Fe₂O₃ + MnO₂ + H₂O + Si + Al₂O₃. When calcined it is referred to as Burnt Umber and has more intense colors.
• Raw Sienna : a naturally occurring yellow-brown pigment from limonite clay. Used in art since prehistoric times.

  Black pigments

• Carbon Black
• Ivory Black
• Vine Black
• Lamp Black

• Mars Black or Iron black Synthetic magnetite Fe₃O₄

• Manganese dioxide: blackish or brown in color, used since prehistoric times

• Titanium Black: Titanium oxide

  White pigments

• Antimony White: antimony oxide

• Barium sulfate : barium sulfate
• Lithopone: BaSO₄•ZnS

• Cremnitz White : basic lead carbonate ₂·Pb

• Titanium White : titanium oxide

• Zinc White : zinc oxide
• Sachtolith: zinc sulfide

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