Color Charts XL: Color Collection Edition

I do adult coloring pretty much every day. It is my number one hobby. This product came up on my Amazon, and I eventually bought it. I think it is an incredible value for the price. It is just a book full of pages with 24 big empty squares and several lines next to each square. It also has space for a title or what set of coloring supplies the page contains and also the date. I am a little confused as to why there is a space for the date. I'm not sure why you would need to know the date in this instance. Maybe colors change or fade over time? Who knows. I am very happy with this book. The only problem I can see so far is for coloring supplies where differentiating the actual markers from each other is impossible without actually labelling the markers themselves, like Crayola or Rose Art super tips. In the introduction of the book, she (?) tells you to put a sheet behind the page you are using to prevent bleed-through, so I have been doing that. I don't think the pages are especially thin. They seem comparable to Creative Haven coloring book paper. It's a pretty thick book, but you still might need more than one if you have a large coloring media collection. I got the XL edition based on reviews. It is the size of your standard coloring book. The squares are pretty big, so I haven't been filling them completely. I think the idea is that you could blend colors within the square of press hard and soft, like for colored pencils. Very happy with this book.

I bought this to record color combinations for my colored pencil work. It's an ample sized book with more pages than I'll ever use, which is a good thing! I record color schemes in part of the book, blending charts in another part. Each page has many charts, so the color combinations can be arranged by color family, items to be colored (leaves/flowers/parrots). The uses are limited only by the imagination and need of the artist. The pages take colored pencil very well. They also take gel crayon, gel pens, water color pencils, and ink. I haven't tried alcohol markers or water based markers because I don't use those very often. The paper is not heavy, so I doubt it would work without gesso or another waterproofing medium. I am very pleased with it.

Was able to swatch a lot of colors, only wish paper was more of a media type.

I purchased the color charts XL book to help me keep track of my different colored pencil set colors, since so many of them do no have true to color barrels. This is a full size, soft-cover book. The beginning pages have some tips, a few pictures you can color in and a 'this book belongs ___' to page. Each page has 24 large boxes to color in, with 4 lines next to each box. These lines offer plenty of room to write the color names, number and/or brand. I have fairly large handwriting so the amount of room provided is perfect for me. The paper could be a bit thicker and I would definitely recommend using a blotter page or other sheets of paper between the pages while coloring the boxes in, especially if you are using pens or markers. I did have some bleed through with a few of my pencils. The pages are single sided though, so it doesn't cause any real issues if you place something between the pages. The boxes are large enough to show shading of each color or blending of multiple colors if you are making a color palette. Overall great purchase and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who has a large collection of pencils, markers or pens for coloring or who likes to create color palettes for any type of art or design. I have posted a picture of a page in use and may add more as I continue to use it.

I love the size of the color squares in this book! They’re very large, so there’s plenty of room to really work with the colors. You can blend several colors easily. And the book is MUCH bigger than I expected. It’s the size of a jumbo coloring book like I used to get when I was a kid. This has a TON of pages. It’s easily double, maybe triple the size of any of the coloring books I have, so there’s lots of room to swatch multiple sets of pencils and try different blends in it before I try it in my coloring books. I’m really very happy with this and would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to swatch their pencils. It would work great for markers or pens as well, but you’d probably want to put a backing paper between sheets, I think you might get a little bleed through. I used gamsol to blend some of my swatches and it did okay, but the next page was a bit damp. I’m definitely glad I got this, and am looking forward to trying all kinds of color combination blends in it.

Very satisfied with this color swatch book. 80 sheets! Most similar books have 40-50 sheets. 24 large (1 inch square) boxes per sheet with lines for color information. Each sheet has lines on top for “color chart” and “date” which of course you can use as desired. For tracking pen/pencil sets, i use the lines for brand name and how many sheets for that brand (i.e. 1 of 3). I also keep sheets for all pencils combining brands and all gel pens combining brands, etc. there are still plenty of sheets for recording information for individual projects. I find the paper adequate for the purpose. I estimate it to be about 20# paper with slight tooth to it. I use a sheet of 110# card stock behind it when making swatches (same that I use behind coloring sheets). For colored pencils, I smooth out the swatch with a paper stump. The gel pens I have do not soak through but do show on other side. Markers will soak through. Other media I can’t speak for.

Super handig boek. Enkel zou het paier dikker mogen dan schijnt de kleur niet zo op.

I’m glad I bought this swatch book. Previously I paid 2711/- on flipkart for the ruby charms big book of colour charts and after a month of eagerly waiting for it, flipkart went and cancelled the order😡. And I came back to my favourite amazon and searched and bought this book. I am surprised at the size of it..it’s a pretty large size. And the swatch boxes are generously sized. I’m thoroughly enjoying laying down all my colours from various pencil brands. Go ahead and buy....even though the paper is thin, it’s very smooth and I love that there is so much space for writing the text. Thanks amazon! Buy this swatch book without a second thought...easy on the pocket too!!

Muchas hojas, casillas grandes y espacio más que suficiente para poner la información de cada color.

紙質はあまりよくないけれど、カラーチャートを作っておくと、増え続ける色鉛筆やマーカーの管理に便利。買い足す色とかが一目瞭然。 片面印刷なので、アルコールマーカーなど裏移りするものでも大丈夫。ページ数も多からず少なからずって感じでちょうどいい。長期保管用としては表紙の紙質もあまり丈夫そうではないので、厚紙で覆ってオリジナル装丁してます。

Und das ohne viel Aufwand! Man kann alle wichtigen Infos zu den Farben in dem A4 grossen Buch zusammentragen. Das Papier ist glatt und recht dünn, deshalb sollte man bei Markern (Wasserbasierende Tinte oder Alkohol) unbedingt ein Blatt unterlegen, denn die Farben schlagen durch! Bei Bleistiftfarben gibt es dieses Problem nicht. Allerdings habe ich persönlich auch da ein Stück Papier unter die Buchseite gelegt, weil wenn man layern möchte und 2-3x in ein Kästchen malt, dann sieht man das doch recht deutlich auf der Rückseite. Ich hätte mir gewünscht, dass man die Seiten heraustrennen kann (das kann man natürlich auch einfach so aber riskiert eventuell, dass das Papier reisst). Dann könnte man beispielsweise die einzelnen Seiten laminieren und 4-5 Blätter besser nebeneinander halten, um Farbtöne zu vergleichen.