- Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB) (Auramine-Rhodamine, Fite, Kinyoun, Ziehl-Neelsen)
- Acridine orange
- Alcian Blue
- Brown and Brenn
- Calcofluor white
- Congo Red
- Fluorochrome
- Fontana-Masson
- Geimsa
- Gomori Methenamine Silver (GMS)
- Gram
- Gridley's Fungus (GF)
- Lactophenol aniline blue
- Loeffler methylene blue
- Methylene blue
- Oil Red O
- Osmic acid
- Periodic Acid - Schiff (PAS)
- Iron/Prussian Blue
- Reticulin
- Safranin O
- Toluidine blue
- Trichrome
- Wright-Giemsa