The Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolor range offers bright, vibrant colors and unrivalled performance in an extensive color spectrum. Watercolor reflects the unique characteristics of the pigments used and Professional Watercolors use only the finest pigments, known for their brilliance, permanence and color strength. With 80 single pigment colors in the range, Winsor & Newton offers the widest range of modern and traditional pigments for clean color mixing. The transparency of Professional Watercolor is achieved through pigment dispersion during manufacturing the natural characteristics of each pigment highlights the paint's transparency level. 106 out of 109 colors in the Professional Watercolor range are classed as "permanent for artist's use".