Browse natural minerals and match their colors to named PIGMENTUM shades.
Minerals are nature's original pigment factory. Long before synthetic dyes, painters ground azurite into deep blues, malachite into rich greens and cinnabar into vivid reds. This atlas catalogues the characteristic colors of common minerals and gemstones and maps each one to its closest named color in the PIGMENTUM library, so you can move from a geological specimen straight to a precise, shareable color page.
Every mineral carries a small set of representative swatches drawn from typical specimens. Because PIGMENTUM contains all 16,777,216 RGB colors and every one of them has a unique name, each swatch resolves to an exact named color — there is no approximation. Click any chip to open that color's full page with conversions, harmonies, contrast data and variants.
Hardness is given on the Mohs scale, from talc at 1 to diamond at 10. Lustre describes how a fresh surface reflects light — vitreous (glassy), metallic, resinous, silky or earthy. Localities list classic or notable sources; many minerals occur far more widely. Mineral color varies with impurities, oxidation and crystal habit, so treat each swatch as a strong example rather than a fixed value.
Designers and illustrators hunting for earthy, mineral-grounded palettes; geology and earth-science teachers building visual references; jewellers and lapidaries; and collectors who want to name and compare the colors in their cabinet.