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Order • Architecture • Design • Industrial Design • Research • Education • Industry • History • System Presentation |
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NCS builds on decades of scientific research and development by psychologists, physicists, architects and designers. It is based on the use of color in the environment and how the human being sees color, and is the work of the Scandinavian Colour Institute. During its development 10-15 people were involved in different experiments and investigations taking more than 100 man years of work. Millions of visual assessments were made and tens of thousands of color samples were matched in different series. |
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In 1611 A.S. Forsius published the first embryo for the Natural Color System in his book “Physica”. |
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The NCS System is based on the ‘opponent’ color theories (which are today accepted as the best model of human color vision) of the German physiologist Hering of the late nineteenth century. |
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Scandinavian Colour Institute (SCI) was started in Sweden in
1946. In 1952 the Colour Atlas was introduced with 600 colours
and the Colour School was started. NCS in its present form is the
result of more than half a century of research work in Sweden. The
leading people involved in the development of NCS were Tryggve
Johansson, Sven Hesselgren and Anders Hard. Since the adoption of NCS
as the Swedish standard in 1979 with 1412 colours, the System has
had a major impact on colour communication in Europe. NCS is now the
most widely used colour notation system in Europe. NCS is also the
national standard in Norway and Spain. In 1995 NCS Edition 2 was
launched with 1750 colour samples. NCS reached Europe’s highest
quality of colour standard production and was first with
environmentally approved pigments. The NCS COLOR CENTRE for the
US was established in November 2000 to supply NCS products,
provide an advisory service for specifiers and manufacturers and offer
colour training.If you would like to find out more about the
Scandinavian Colour Institute (head office for NCS) visit their
web site:Go to www.ncscolour.com |
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Site revised 4/10/03 |
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