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What is the difference between Titanium white and Zinc white?

Titanium white or zinc white?

Which is better?

What are these different white paints for?


Well here is your answer. (Insert drum roll here.)


Titanium White

The most popular white; it is the whitest and most opaque white.

When you add Titanium white to a color it will become more opaque, less transparent. Pigment code: PW6


Zinc white:

The least opaque white, it's transparent, therefore ideal for stains, glazes and working in transparency. Pigment code: PW4

What is the difference between titanium white and zinc white
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