Unlocking Colour Communication
Universal Standard for Colour Communication
How would you describe the exact nuance of copper?
The human eye perceives 10 million different colours. NCS – Natural Colour System® is a universal language for colour communication. Rooted in scientific precision, NCS Notations are your codes to communicate and select colours across industries with unparalleled accuracy. With NCS codes, copper will always refer to the same colour.
Is copper yellow, orange or red? Or NCS S 2030-Y60R?
Colour your design
Now available: NCS Quality Report 2024
To ensure high colour accuracy and reliable colour samples, NCS Colour performs rigorously quality controls in production. Our yearly NCS Quality Report is now available for the latest Pre-Order.
Colour and material
Pioneering partnership with Tarkett
Tarkett is now launched as the first partner of our colour platform NCS+. By browsing through the library of Tarkett’s flooring solutions you can identify and create harmonising colour and material combinations with the help of the NCS System.
CDW24 @ TARKETT ATELIERClerkenwell Design Week 2024
For the launch of professional flooring in NCS+, we participate in Clerkenwell Design Week alongside Tarkett. Explore the activation with the overarching theme of 'Colour: From Palette to Purpose'.
See activation
For the launch of professional flooring in NCS+, we participate in Clerkenwell Design Week alongside Tarkett. Explore the activation with the overarching theme of 'Colour: From Palette to Purpose'.
ConnectBecome an NCS+ Partner
Integrate your products into NCS+ to connect with our community of designers and architects. Discover the benefits for your business and enable design with your products using colour as the foundation.
Learn more
Integrate your products into NCS+ to connect with our community of designers and architects. Discover the benefits for your business and enable design with your products using colour as the foundation.
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CDW24 @ TARKETT ATELIER
Clerkenwell Design Week 2024
See activationFor the launch of professional flooring in NCS+, we participate in Clerkenwell Design Week alongside Tarkett. Explore the activation with the overarching theme of 'Colour: From Palette to Purpose'.
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Connect
Become an NCS+ Partner
Learn moreIntegrate your products into NCS+ to connect with our community of designers and architects. Discover the benefits for your business and enable design with your products using colour as the foundation.
Partnership promotion
25% off any new Vectorworks annual subscription license
As a Vectorworks partner, we are excited to offer our customers an exclusive Vectorworks discount. By using the code PPNCSC2024, you get a 25% discount on any new Vectorworks annual subscription license.
Offer starts July 1 and ends July 31, 2024, is manually applied in checkout and cannot be used on previous purchases, renewals or combined with other offers.
NCS Colour Trends 2025+
What's next in colour? Gaia, On & Off, Inner and Ethereal – these are the trend directions representing the trend colours of 2025+. Get to know them!
Designer Mike Klar interprets the direction of Inner. Explore the process of how the redecoration of his studio and creating a painting embodies Inner!
Discover how designer Julie Lansom incorporates the colours of trend direction Ethereal into her renowned 'Bao Lamp'. What is her inspiration?
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Explore allWhat's next in colour? Gaia, On & Off, Inner and Ethereal – these are the trend directions representing the trend colours of 2025+. Get to know them!
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Read moreDesigner Mike Klar interprets the direction of Inner. Explore the process of how the redecoration of his studio and creating a painting embodies Inner!
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Read moreDiscover how designer Julie Lansom incorporates the colours of trend direction Ethereal into her renowned 'Bao Lamp'. What is her inspiration?
Duro Sweden captures Swedish nature and heritage in two new wallpaper collections, Akvarell and Small Patterns. They have NCS codes identifying every colour in their patterns. Learn about how the NCS System has improved their colour design process, from the factory to the paint store.
Explore the true essence of colours
White is not always just white and blue can include shades of both red and green. With NCS, it’s simple. And accurate. Our products will help you design and select the right colours for your mood board or projects.
Master your colour communication
Transform your business
Over a span of forty years, we have engineered colour communication. Explore our portfolio of high quality products, accessible design tools, comprehensive colour education and innovative colour solutions to support your business.
Communicate in colour
Defining colours accurately is essential. Producing the exact same colour on different products, materials and surfaces starts with using a recognisable and common colour language. Identifying and deciding on colours with NCS is easy and optimises your colour communication process.
Experience the NCS+ digital colour tool
Simplify and speed up colour selections and projects. Seamlessly store, share and collaborate on colour palette projects. Extract NCS codes from images, create perfect colour combinations with advanced tools and search through extensive colour collections. Export in your favourite format.
Manage colour in production
With a legacy of revolutionising colour communication during the past 40 years, we truly know the complexity of colour management. We offer unique and proven expertise based on thousands of colour standards for the world’s most demanding industrial applications
and markets.
