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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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The 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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