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  • October 23, 2017 at 6:46 pm #995341
    G.C.
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        Hello,

        Does anyone know which 120 set posses the most lightfastness colored pencils?Is it Faber Castell Polychromos or Caran De Ache Pablos? :confused:
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        [FONT=Century Gothic]Gladys

        October 24, 2017 at 4:16 am #1272987
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            Lightfastness is not that simple. Each pencil color will have a specific rating.
            You might have a logner life red on one but a shorter green.. etc… and taht does come with a cost! not simply monetary, but by choice. For example prismacolro does have more colors than any other brand, but because they allow themselves to use worse level of lightfastness pigments.

            Luminance are the most focused in durability, but their color choices are much smaller because of that.

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            October 24, 2017 at 7:28 am #1272986
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                As far as I remember from my own 1990s tests, any Pablo and Polychromos with three star rating is lightfast in normal indoors lighting.

                Pablo colour charts with ratings are notoriously hard to find; these are cropped screen grabs of a PDF pamphlet – oh dear, I didn’t remember that there are so many colours with only two stars!

                This is a 2012 chart of Polychromos – pencils in the second vertical row and pastels (now in only 60 colours) in the third:

                https://colinbradleyartstore.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Pencil-colour-chart005.jpg

                Polychromos range includes more *** colours and it seems to be almost everyone’s favourite. But like tiago said, no brand is completely and absolutely lightfast.

                Heikki

                October 24, 2017 at 8:51 am #1272988
                Garden Maker
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                    Heikki, you are a treasure. :)

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                    October 25, 2017 at 3:38 am #1272989
                    G.C.
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                        Thanks everyone for your replies.
                        Heiki, The chart is so useful! Thank you so much for sharing it with us!

                        [FONT=Century Gothic]Gladys

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