Sources. Colour numbers, names and lightfastness ratings are taken from the official Caran d’Ache Luminance 6901 — 100 colours chart (nuancier). Of the 100 colours, 81 are rated LFI and 19 LFII under ASTM D-6901.
Notes. Colour-family groupings and the chromatic sort order are editorial judgements made for browsing convenience — earth reds such as Terracotta sit under Brown & Earth while Herculanum Red stays under Red. Current set contents were cross-checked against official Caran d’Ache set charts and multiple retailer listings; the current sets nest, so every colour in the 12 is also in the 20, 40 and 76. The Portrait set is a separate themed assortment of 20, drawn largely from the 24 colours added in 2020. The Oliver Jeffers Creative Set (special edition) contains 8 Luminance pencils — its Graphicolor and Maxi Fluo extras are not Luminance colours and are not listed here. Beware a recurring retailer typo: the small sets contain 470 Spring Green, not 407 Sepia.
Discontinued tins (✝). From the range’s launch in 2008 into the mid-2010s, Luminance was boxed as 16, 38 and 76 — memberships here are read directly from the official 2011 nuancier (retrieved via the Wayback Machine) and independently confirmed against archived retailer listings. Those sets nested too (16 ⊂ 38 ⊂ 76), and the 38 is exactly today’s 40 minus 070 Scarlet and 662 Cobalt Blue 10% — a swap that came with the mid-2010s packaging revamp (the 40 box was on sale by 2018), well before the range grew to 100 colours in 2020. The 76 needs no ✝: the historic tin and today’s box hold the identical 76 colours (verified number-for-number against the 2011 chart), so the single “Set of 76” filter serves both eras — the modern box simply adds 2 colourless full blenders, and some of its colours have since been renamed, re-rated or reformulated as noted.
Former names. Shown in italics under the affected colours. The four skin-tone names from the 2020 launch (Light flesh, Dark flesh 5% / 40% / plain) became Butternut and Warm earth 5% / 40% / 70% around 2021; note that 748 still appears as “Dark flesh” on some official charts — an apparent oversight, as packaging and retailers use Warm Earth 70%. The cobalt trio (660 / 661 / 662), the base greys (508 / 808) and the brown olives (732 / 736) were renamed on the chart to systematise the family naming — former names are taken from the official 2011 English chart, with the official 2015 chart used to date each change (the brown olives, 350’s French name and 242’s reformulation had already changed by 2015; the cobalt and grey renames and the three re-ratings came later). The 2011 chart also documents three lightfastness upgrades (039, 070 and 083 were then rated LFII, now LFI) and one reformulation (242 Primerose, PY195 → PY53).
Sort orders. “By number” is ascending code order, as used by the 2025 Beaux-Arts catalogue . “Chromatic” is this page’s editorial hue walk. “Colour chart” follows the printed grid of the official 100-colour chart , read row by row. “Blank chart” follows the 10 × 10 grid of the official blank colouring-in chart (nuancier vierge) , read row by row — the two official layouts agree at fewer than a quarter of their positions.
Swatches (off by default). Screen approximations flatten what these pigments do on paper, so the swatch column is opt-in. Hex values were sampled from London Graphics’ retail swatches (July 2026) — their data errors corrected by list position and name — then hand-adjusted and completed where the retailer’s data was missing or untrustworthy. Treat every swatch as indicative only; trust the printed chart, then trust your own swatching.