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AS A COMPOSITION OF MATTER A FLUID COLORANT USEFUL IN COLORING COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING AS THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS A MIXTURE OF: (A) A FIRST NONIONIC ETHER SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF ALKYL AND ALKARYL ALKYLENE GLYCOL ETHERS WHICH ARE SOLUBLE IN WATER, ETHYLENE GYLCOL AND POLAR SOLVENTS AND HAVING A RANGE OF FROM 9 TO 15 OXYALKYLENE GROUPS, (B) A SECOND NONIONIC ALKARYL ALKYLENE GLYCOL ETHER WHICH IS AT MOST PARTIALLY SOLUBLE IN WATER AND ETHYLENE GLYCOL, AND MISCIBLE WITH HYDROCARBON SOLVENTS AND HAVING A RANGE OF FROM 1 TO 7 OXYALKYLENE GROUPS, (C) A HYDROCARBON SOLVENT, (D) A LATENT SOLVENT SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF WATER SOLUBLE AND VOLATILE ALKYL KETONES, ALKYLENE GLYCOLS, MONO-AND DI-ALKYL ETHERS OF ALKYLENE GLYCOLS, MONOAND DI-ESTERS OF ALKYLENE GLYCOLS, AND ETHER ESTERS OF ALKYLENE GLYCOLS, HAVING INTIMATELY DISPERSED THEREIN A PIGMENT SAID PIGMENT HAVING A MAXIMUM WATER SOLUBLE SALT CONTENT OF 0.5% AND BEING MADE UP, AT LEAST IN PART, OF COLORED PIGMENT WITH THE LATTER CONSTITUTING FROM 10% TO 70% BY WEIGHT OF THE TOTAL COLORANT AND WITH THE TOTAL PIGMENT CONSTITUTING FROM 30% TO 85% BY WEIGHT OF THE TOTAL COLORANT, SAID FIRST AND SECOND NONIONIC ETHERS CONSTITUTING FROM 10% TO 45% BY WEIGHT OF THE TOTAL COLORANT, SAID SECOND NONIONIC ETHER CONSTITUTING FROM 7.0% TO 30% BY WEIGHT OF SAID TOTAL COLORANT, SAID HYDROCARBON SOLVENT CONSTITUTING UP TO 17% BY WEIGHT OF THE TOTAL COLORANT AND THE LATENT SOLVENT CONSTITUTING FROM 4.0% TO 11% BY WEIGHT OF THE TOTAL COLORANT.