The NCS System simplifies your design projects. From the drawing board to the final result, our colour design tools are made to support your every step.
Create your colour concepts with NCS. Designers, architects or creatives will take colouring decisions through their projects. Choosing the right colours, making the best combinations or being able to communicate these to a stakeholder or a customer is not always easy. Integrating physical and digital tools into your colour projects will promote efficiency, precision, and creative inspiration.
Colours Beyond 2027+
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Colour your design
Identify colours effortlessly with colour tools at your fingertips
Turn your real life inspiration with our colour reader. Connecting right to your NCS+ app, you can scan any physical surface and get the NCS code. Any scans you make on your phone will show up in real time in your web app as well. Pro tip: Scan with your Colourpin, save the colour in a moodboard in NCS+ to keep track of your projects and validate the result with an NCS Index 2050. All of our products are built on the same logic and work best together.
Define the perfect colour palette
Develop your distinct colour palette with the full range of the NCS 2050 Standard colours. Use the intelligence of the system and NCS codes to navigate the NCS Colour Space. You can define colour combinations to reflect your vision with precision.
Visualise your colour choices
To make accurate colour choices with partners, customers, or colleagues, visualising your colour design is important. Whether it’s digital or physical colour references, collaborating, communicating and aligning colours is seamless with NCS.
NCS Colourpin II
Colour Samples
Cascade Chips
Work with the NCS System Digitally
Working with colours digitally can revolutionise your design projects. NCS+ will allow you to be more efficient in your colour selections, simplify collaboration and make you more confident your decisions.
How the NCS System works
With NCS, it's easy to describe a colour's precise hue and nuance. Whether selecting the ideal colour, creating stunning combinations, or fine-tuning the intensity of a colour, you can communicate it all with the NCS code.
Find a reseller near you
Our design tools are available globally. An NCS partner helps you with customised solutions and colour choices. A local contact can support you in your request.
About NCS Colour
At the core of our innovation is the Natural Colour System® NCS. Using NCS Notations or codes make it easy to perfectly communicate the colour you envision.
Since 1945, we have engineered colour communication and revolutionised how we communicate the colours we perceive.