DH LINEN COLOUR	PALE LEMON COLOUR	GREEN CLAY	PALE OLIVINE	LIGHT FRENCH GREY
SIENNA SAND	BUFF	SULPHUR COLOUR	SEA GREEN	FRENCH GREY
MINERAL RED	DH SALMON	PUGIN YELLOW	SAGE GREEN	LIGHT COBALT
ROSE MADDER	NAPLES RED	YELLOW OCHRE	DH DRAB	DELFT BLUE
PUGIN RED	RED OCHRE	GAMBOGE	CHROME GREEN	DH INDIGO
CRIMSON	DH RED	GOLD OCHRE	DP BRUNSWICK GREEN	DEEP ULTRAMARINE

The Victorian palette has richness and depth. Dramatic combinations of colours were popularly used in three part schemes - for example DH Drab, DH Salmon and Buff, or Yellow Ochre, Sage Green and French Grey. Strong reds and greens such as Red Ochre and Chrome Green were thought the most suitable colours for dining rooms, libraries and picture galleries in order to enhance these rooms' perceived importance. Drawing rooms, sitting rooms and bedrooms tended to use lighter and brighter tones such as Sea Green and DH Salmon.

The Victorians were not reliant only on pigments from Europe but could import them from all over the world - the name Gamboge, for example, was a corruption of the name Cambodia and was a deep yellow colour derived from a tree resin, collected, like rubber, by cutting the bark and collecting the juice.

The Victorian love of science and invention ensured that major new developments were made in the discovery of synthetic colours. Shades such as Deep Ultramarine, Rose Madder, DH Red and Sulphur Colour were all available by the middle of the 19th century and shown at events like the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Colour representation on-screen should not necessarily be taken as completely accurate.