NCS Colour adds 100 new standard colors

Press release — Amersfoort, April 8, 2022

NCS Colour adds 100 new NCS standard colors in the low saturation color area to give users more options and more control when working with these colors. Low saturated colors are very important in architecture, interior design and product design.

When viewing color samples representing this color area, it is often difficult to distinguish one color from another. Does a perfect white exist? How do I choose between different gray colors to get the right nuance? Is this too gray or too beige? What gives that dark color a slight tinge of seriousness?

A little saturation has the power to create a feeling that a neutral color cannot, and small differences in nuance or tint can have a major impact on the final design.

Four color planes

The 100 new NCS standard colors are divided into four color planes. Low saturated colors are the most used colors in NCS, apart from true neutral colors.

The new colors focus on colors between yellow and red. This area of the NCS color circle includes beige and brown (as a nuance of orange) and pink (nuance of red).

Furthermore, "White" is an extremely important color. Although there are countless white nuances on the market, most have between 05 and 10 in Blackness and 00 to 02 in saturation in NCS. For this reason, we are adding two new nuances in this space, 0601 & 1001, which correspond to the best-selling white tints, apart from the current standard NCS.

Index 1950 Original becomes Index 2050

NCS Index is the most popular NCS Colour product, used worldwide by color professionals and enthusiasts. Now we have created an even better NCS Index.

Based on feedback from thousands of users and numerous user tests, a new NCS Index has come to market. With the addition of 100 new NCS Standard colors, the NCS Index 1950 has changed to NCS Index 2050.

In addition to the NCS Index, other NCS Design tools have also been upgraded to the NCS 2050 series.

NCS 2050

All NCS 2050 Design products, such as the NCS Album 2050, NCS Atlas 2050, NCS Block 2050 and NCS Index 2050 are available at NCSkleuren.nl Netherlands, Netherlands Color Institute Foundation.

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