A leading brand such as Rembrandt Soft Pastels has a wide and professional range of colours. 203 to be exact. Whatever colour or mixed shade you are looking for, it's there. So there is a maximum choice of colour. The Rembrandt assortment consists of 42 pure colours (full tones), 40 intermediate shades going towards black and 121 intermediate shades towards white. The Rembrandt Pastel coding system makes it easy to see whether a colour is pure or is a mixture. Each colour has its own number, for example Lemon yellow has 205. In the case of pure colours this number is followed by the figure ,5. In the case of lemon yellow what is on the label is 205,5. The gradation darker (mixed with black) is indicated by 205,3. The lighter gradations (mixtures with white with higher figures. In this case: 205,7, 205,9 and 205,12. Some colours also have the gradations ,8 and ,10.
Open stock Pastels
All 203 colours of Rembrandt Soft Pastels can be obtained separately, as an addition to sets for putting together favourite colour selections in empty boxes.