I love creating art with my Dual Brush Pens and always refer to my Tombow dual brush pen color chart to pick the marker I need. When you add water to the marker color, the hues change so this chart is very handy to have!
The process of creating a color chart is so relaxing and stress free. There is no expectations- all you need to do is put color down and paint. Fill in those squares, circles or the grid. Its repetitive, mindless and super satisfying!


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How many Tombow markers are there?
There are 108 colors. You can grab this printable chart to keep track of the colors you own.
What do Tombow numbers mean?
Each Tombow Dual Brush Pen marker has a 3-digit color number printed on the barrel.

- You’ll notice all the reds start with number 8 and all the blues start with number 4 or 5. The first number denotes the color family or
- Darker color pen number end with a 7,8, or 9
- Lighter color pen number end with a 1,2 or 3
- The Grey markers are numbered with a N followed by 2 digits.
How to Make A tombow dual brush pen color chart
Watch the video: I show I created the Tombow Dual Brush Pen Color chart using washi tape for a grid here www.instagram.com/tv/BuoRoZOHkTM/
This chart idea is my most favorite one. The chart will take a good 30+ minutes to make, but the lines are all crisp and beautiful! This is my most used and referred color chart and I used all 108 Tombow Dual Brush Pens here.
I used a sheet from my Canson Mixed Media XL sketchbook and then used the best masking tape to create a grid of 12 by 9 to match the marker arrangement in the Tombow Marker Storage case.
Simply scribbled color into each area and paint over it with water. Slowly but steadily fill in all of those 108 little rectangles.

Here is how my finished watercolor Tombow dual brush pen color chart looks! I cannot even begin to tell you how happy these colors make me. 🙂
Why Should You Make A Tombow Dual Brush Pen Color Chart
- You can see how all the colors look on paper at a glance quickly. Makes it very easy to pick and choose my markers to use on any sketch
- I have found that the marker cap color doesn’t always match the watercolor perfectly. So the watercolor chart gives me a great idea how the actual color of the Dual Brush Pen will end up with on my paper.
- A Tombow dual brush pen color chart also gives me a great idea about what colors I can avoid. In general, marker numbers ending with 0 or 1 are too light in nature and don’t watercolor too much. The color doesn’t really change with the addition of water.
- You won’t accidentally buy duplicates! Check your color swatch before buying new markers.
10 Pack Marker Color Charts
You can also print my Free Color Mixing Chart Pdfs to explore the different colors you can create with just 10 markers!

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Conclusion
On a day when I just need a creative outlet and don’t want to worry much about color and composition creating a color mixing chart is the perfect way to play!
In conclusion, I highly recommend that you create your own Tombow Dual Brush Pen color chart. It doesn’t matter if you have 10 pens or all 108. The color chart will help you explore more hues and you will learn how to mix more colors with the markers you have.
Color swatching is a great, satisfying way to spend a snowy afternoon creating your rainbow on paper.

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I love to read your blog and watch your videos! Of course I had to rearrange my Tombow markers like you showed. I only have the 96 color set, not the newest 12 set yet. My eyes may be playing a trick on me but I don’t see 515 or 027 on the chart. Please check and let me know where they should go.
Thanks so much!
Are you saying I’m missing colors!! Do I have duplicate entries? Let me check
You are correct!! My daughter called out the marker numbers to me and I guess I wrote them wrong. 027 is where I have written 072 and 515 goes where I have written 551. I’ll fix and update it. Thanks for catching it!!
I have a few and I love them but the writing of the color number comes off.
Yes! The numbers slowly start to come off and that is one of my pet peeves too.
Got it! I’ll add these two in the right places now! Thanks!
What are the colors that are in the 108 set but not in the 96 set? Which numbers are the new colors?
This is just what I have been looking for! I just discovered your website and I am really excited to start getting to know and use my brush pens in new ways.
Thank you so much!!