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Here’s a quick post on how to tell the DANIEL SMITH paint tube labels apart at a glance. Across the top row of the image below are tube labels from three product lines:

  1. Extra Fine Watercolors
  2. Luminescent Watercolors
  3. Extra Fine GOUACHE (coming soon!)

The white flower logo inside a solid color box is used on both #1 and #2 – so you want to look for the word “Luminescent” versus “Extra Fine” in the product name. The label for #3 is distinguished from the Watercolors with a solid box behind the word “Gouache” and the flower logo is in color without a box behind it.


Across the bottom row are three more lines:

4. PrimaTek Watercolors
5. Water Soluble Oil Colors
6. Original Oil Colors

The product name is the same for #4 and #1, so look for the “P” logo instead of the flower to identify it as PrimaTek. Our wild boar logo is used for both #5 and #6 – but it has a white ring of text around it for the Water Soluble versus a black ring of text for the Original.