THE WORLD'S BEST PIGMENTS & COLOUR EFFECTS
ABOUT US
Australia’s only synthetic pigment manufacturer and the world’s leading destination for the highest quality pigments and colour effects. We manufacture pigments from scratch in our state-of-the-art factory and laboratory, and we proudly set the standard for pigments, pigment concentrates, liquid colourants
and unique special effect materials in Australia and Worldwide.
@Lucid Colour we believe colour is more than just colour, it’s an experience and a tool for inspiring creativity. For 24 years, we’ve empowered artists, designers, and all industries with our extensive collection of over 10,000 pigments, including pigment powders, pigment pastes, liquid tints, metallics, effects & more. From art and cosmetics to epoxy resins and industrial coatings, our products are designed to inspire and perform at the highest level. We 110% guarantee our products can not be surpassed.
Our Mission: We don’t just make pigments; we create unique experiences and material possibilities. Our mission is to provide unparalleled access to colour, offering rare pure pigments to custom formulations tailored to your unique needs. Whether you are starting out or experimenting in art or a professional developing products for global brands, our interactive shop and lab are here to support you. We’re committed to your exact colour needs with direct service, honest communication, and industry qualification, ensuring 'The world's best colours!'
Our Story: Lucid Colour was created from a lifelong passion for colour, sparked by founder Luke’s childhood experiments in a make-shift lab in Sydney. Mixing found chemicals in old pickle jars as a inquisitive kid, leading to chemical formulas to make pigments, this journey led to the creation of Lucid Colour, a space founded in colour, creativity and technical expertise.
Our team of world-renowned colour chemists and chemistry experts continue to supply colour and technical solutions for creative individual customers and iconic brands worldwide.
Why Choose Lucid Colour?
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Unmatched Quality: As the only pigment manufacturer offering a 110% refund guarantee if our products don’t meet AS/ASTM/ISO standards, we stand by our commitment to excellence. Hence 'The world's best pigments and colour!'
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Australian made: get direct contact and accurate info from us the local manufacturer. Importers or resellers do not undertake lab analysis on the products they sell. If needed for health & safety, insurance, quality or compliance we can provide testing and fully certified analytical colour data.
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Best Selection: Explore the world’s largest range of colour pigments, including art pigments, cosmetic-grades, inks, tattoo pigments, epoxy pastes, liquid colours, polyesters, urethanes, leather or wood colours and endless metallics.
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Affordable Innovation: We pioneered the 25 & 50 gram colour jars (still only $5 & $8) to the industry in 2001 with professional-grade pigment (not packaging print pigment).
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Interactive Experience: Visit our colour laboratory to mix, swatch, and create your own unique shades with access to practically every synthetic pigment developed on Earth.
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Community Care: All sample sale proceeds go to Beyond Blue, Fred Hollows or other causes and supports creative initiatives through our 'Colour for a Cause' @LucidColour
What We Offer...
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True unique colour products: Our products are NOT from the low to average quality China factories. We offer unique colours that are beyond all those same imported repeats...
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Custom Formulations: Need a specific shade? We can craft any colour, and make colour work into any medium or stick to anything. We make pigment concentrates and tints to develop any paint, coating or surface, and provide world leading ready to use products for every other application.
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Reliable Trusted Products: Our products are made with GMP and are AS/ATSM/ISO tested to meet all standards.
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Industry Expertise: Our qualifications in pigment synthesis make us trusted partners for industries ranging from care and cosmetics products to high quality customised colour concentrates for coatings and technical industries. Always backed with accurate qualified help, not online "hear say".
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Creative Freedom: Providing a hands-on space to develop your own colours, with expert guidance in achieving your perfect colours and target colour performance outcomes.
Get in Touch
Ready to dive into unlimited colours? Direct contact us here!
There's something very inquisitive and personally satisfying to swatching your own hand made colours developed by your mind or vision. Reach out @LucidColour on Instagram for inspiration, free samples, latest colours and updates, or call directly for orders or any other questions +61 756 412 412
Dr. / Prof. Luke — aka The Colour Professor
Luke is a dedicated and forward-thinking professional known for his commitment to excellence and his ability to bring innovative solutions to complex challenges. With a reputation for integrity, creativity, honest communication and collaboration, Luke has consistently demonstrated leadership across the pigment and colour industries worldwide, earning the respect of colleagues and industry peers alike. Luke's colour production continues with new technology in recycling metal, plastic and chemicals into new colour and inks for consumer packaging printing where more than 50% of pigments are used and unfortunately end up in the bin and not recycled. A simple google images search will show China pigments have damaged our health, water and eco systems and this initiated our zero waste commitment at Lucid.
Luke is a chromatic maverick, equal parts scientist, chemist and artist, a chemical innovator and experimentalist, a philanthropic colour curator who turned his childhood chaos with children's chemistry sets and automotive waste, into world-class colour products that are embraced in every colour industry worldwide.
Humble begins: Basically born holding his mother’s oil paints, on the day of St. Luke (patron saint of artists) to a Polish father (a mechanic) and Sicilian mother (a mechanic too) who was also a part-time art teacher, art author and book illustrator. Moving to Sydney at a young age where his parents owned a mechanical repair garage. Not attending school in earlier years as Luke did not speak at all, he would hand tools to his parents or dis-assembling anything available to him to see how it works. Childhood dreams of being an inventor or famous artists started very early, followed by Luke's expensive colour addiction with his mothers oil paints and his creative mindset to make things.
Growing up: Luke’s lifelong obsession with colour really ignited at age six when he was removing lead plates from dead car batteries at parents automotive workshop, when discovering lead oxide crystals which later became lead white, lead red... This led to mixing other metals and acids to find new crystal type precipitates. At age nine Luke converted the workshop garages unused 'out back dunny' into his first colour lab filled with colour experiments. At age eleven Luke was chrome plating his friends BMX bikes, and at age thirteen embarked on explosive chemical experiments, from Lead, Copper, or Chrome metals and acids, until the Australian Federal Police’s (AFP) bomb squad, who politely suggested Luke sticks to only the experiments in his kid's chemistry sets, NOT explosives and pyrotechnics in local park, the school oval or friends backyards.
Bright‑pink obsessed colour scientist: A lifelong “colour addict” and bright pink as his favourite colour Luke is one of the very few scientist constantly looking for new colours and colour chemistry breakthroughs in his Colour Lab. Discovering and
making colour experiments as a kid and still today, a lifetime dedication to colour science and colour pigment production.
World-leading pigment chemist: Luke has spent over 24+ years synthesizing and curating the world's largest catalogue of pigments in human history with over 10,000 colour hues, each manufactured in Australia's only pure‑pigment factory. Not one chemist in the world has made more individual pigment shades.
Down to earth Professor: Luke is the interesting and practical lecturer across all Australian universities and tech colleges for blending chemistry, science and art. Sharing the hidden secret experiences and tools in the colour industry to new students, colour professionals, current and future scientists with colourful student practicals or demonstrations. Prof Luke is inspiring art, design and science students to fully understand the technical attributes in colour / light and all the colour industry processes.
Trusted consultant to Industry and .gov: Dr/Prof Luke has worked and consulted for the AFP bomb squad and happily consults for other GOV & NGO in the chemistry, recycling and colour space. Luke is also helping mining industries with waste tailings dam processing to chemical extraction and recycling.
An open‑source alchemist: Luke often reveals rare chemical formulas that he has discovered in making new colours and pigments, stating "Nobody can claim to own wavelengths of light, and I also don't believe in keeping secrets to colour, everyone can reproduce any of these pigments themselves".
Luke also opens his colour laboratory (Colour Lab) to conduct classes showing how pigments are made and also how to produce exact colour shades when mixing pigments or paints.
Always there to help: Luke has collaborated with world-renowned artists, tattooists, cosmetic houses, resin creators, industrial clients, and all other colour user industries, turning mere pennies into pounds of bespoke pigments at a fraction of the cost of colour suppliers. "Colour should seduce, ignite, or awaken the mind, where colour is actually made, but above all else, colour and pigments remain accessible and affordable".
(Quote by Luke @TED TEDGlobal 2006 Monterey, California).
Philanthropist of colour: Luke donates proceeds from colour sample sales to worthy causes such as Beyond Blue and Fred Hollows Foundation, blending colour beauty with benevolence. Embracing “colour for a cause” initiatives with Lucid Colour for customers that reach out on instagram DM's @LucidColour
Want to Co-lab with Luke or Lucid Colour: Some co-labs include Adidas, R.M Williams, Harvard University, OPI Products ATL Composites, FirstGraphene, UrbanDecay, Lillypad Lacquer, Acme Fins, Firewire Surfboards, NYX brand, Dinosaur Designs,
DC Tri, Lush, Movie & Dream World, Riviera Yachts, Chevron,
Harley Davidson, Rhino Linings, West Gold Ltd, TYM guitars....
Luke has worked for over 10,000 individual clients, businesses, companies, and many famous brands. Reach out here if you want to come into Colour Laboratory & Shop to work with us in colour or brand co-labs. @LucidColour or message us below.
