How many embossing powders do you *actually* use?

I'll be honest and say I hardly ever emboss these days, although I recently did some new swatches in the hopes it might motivate me to use them more. I would say 95% of the time I emboss in gold. I have white, clear, and a rose gold type colour that would be my next used powders, but I use them so infrequently I could probably not have them in my stash and still be just fine.

Same as you mom. Black, white, gold and red. I only have a couple of others including clear but I've never used them.

Zero. I haven't embossed in years. Like about 6 or so years. Just never really enjoyed it.

Same here…. Black, white, gold, red and clear. Yet, I probably have 10+ other colors that have never been used. Maybe someday I’ll use them…. Not ready to donate those YET.

Red and gold. I only think about embossing during December Daily.

I have a ton, but to be honest, don’t use many. All the metallics—gold, silver, copper—red, black, clear detail, white. Occasionally blue, green, yellow. But I keep them “just in case”. Mine are all in bottles and jars, though. Don’t know how I would work with them in baggies.

I join the "boring" squad: clear, white, gold, silver, rose gold and a peachy metallic-adjacent shade. It's all I have, too. I always think hard and long before buying an embossing powder to make sure I'll get enough use out of it.

I'll never be a rainbow embosser and I've embraced that.

I have just the basics; white, black, cold, copper, and silver. I don't see myself needing any others.

I use mostly the metallic colors plus white and clear.
I do have lots of colors and some special ones like: glow in the dark, puffy, sticky and sand looking ones.

Last year for CARDtober my challenges included heat embossing and fun ideas, like use water to emboss with...would be great for splatter on LO and that you can use a pen to journal and you can quickly emboss it.
There was a couple more ideas.

White, black, clear, gold, silver and glow on the dark (which I’ve never used but just had to have a couple years ago).

Since I exclusively incorporate stamping into scrapping (e.g. words, labels, icons), I prefer Ranger Super Fine Detail EP. Of the six available Super Fine Detail colors, I regularly use clear, white, & black & occasionally silver, copper, & gold metallics. I also have a few Zing EPs in non-neutral colors (bought on deep clearance at a big box store years ago) that I rarely use. 

i haven’t made cards for a while (injury) but used quite a few embossing powder colors and sometimes mixed colors. It was rare not to use it on a card for sentiments or even images.

Learning to stamp in an LSS class, the owner taught me to heat emboss. (I was the only student.) She said that’s when the angels sang for many new stampers, and they sure did. It still gives me a little thrill. 

I’m surprised so many listed black as often used, since black was known as not being so hot (no pun intended) for crisp, fine embossing. Most card makers (on line, in-person classes, at my LSS) used clear over black ink until recently and some still do. I tossed my black until Brutus Monroe came out with a black that works well. Maybe there are others now.

Clear and white are in plastic snap boxes as most used but the rest are in their jars with a heat embossed circle a little smaller than the lid stuck on. Most used are white, clear, metallics—rose gold, gold, copper, silver. Ranger, Hero Arts, Wow, Brutus Monroe, a couple others.

I love this idea!