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NCS Literature and Research Reports

"Longyearbyen in colour - status and challenges"  $35.00  Presentation (with English Translation) of a project 78 degrees North, where the color profile in the island group Spitsbergen were planned and fulfilled during a period of 20 years. 68 pages printed in color, 2001. By Grete Smedal    

"What Color is the Red House?”   $55.00   

"Colour Scales of Traditional Pigments  for Exterior Use" $48.00  Presentation of traditional pigments and what NCS colors they can obtain. By Karin Fridell Anter and Åke Svedmyr.  

“Nature´s Colour Palette.”  $48.00   Inherent and perceived colors of vegetation, stones and ground.   By Karin Fridell Anter 

NCS Lightness Meter   $50.00 The NCS Lightness meter consists of 18 grey samples from the NCS color sample collection. For each of the 18 grey samples the lightness meter provides details of lightness number L, luminous reflectance factor Y, and NCS color notation.

NCS Lightness Table   $50.00   Pocket book containing measured values of the luminous reflectance factor and the NCS lightness number of all 1,950 color samples in the NCS Color Atlas. 

The NCS Colour Order and Scaling  $11.75  System philosophy, concept, development and usage 1969 by Anders Hård.
 

F22 On Studying Color Combinations. $14.50   Some reflections and preliminary experiments. Lars Sivik and Anders Hård 1983.
 

F26 The Forsius Symposium on Colour Order Systems  $30.00   AIC Midterm meeting 1983.All lectures and summary of discussion from each of seven sessions.
 

F27 Distinctness of Border-  $14.50   A concept for a uniform color space.   Anders Hård and Lars Sivik 1984.
 

F28 The Forsius Symposium on Colour Order Systems.  $30.00   Invited speeches for each of seven sessions, held by some of the worlds leading colour researchers. Also the speaches of David MacAdam and Lennart Holm 1984.
 

F33 Differences in color appearance  $14.50   between mat and glossy colored objects and how to measure them - a comparison between visual appearances and instrumental measurements.  Anders Hård 1988.
 
F49 NCS Natural Color System -  from Concept to Research and Applications, part I and II.  $23.50
An offprint from Color Research & Application, Volume 21, No 3, June 1996. These two articles describes the research and development of NCS, from the introduction of Ewald Hering's theory of “The natural order system of colors” in Sweden to a system for color notations where the attributes and applications of NCS are described. Anders Hård , Lars Sivik & Gunnar Tonnquist.

F50 Colour and Psychology from AIC Interim Meeting 96  in Gothenburg. $44.50
A selection of proceedings from AIC' 96 now available in an anthology edited by Lars Sivik. The anthology contains a broad array of essays by authors from different countries and various professional field where color psychology is a relevant issue. It is a follow-up of the conference on Color and Psychology, that was held in Gothenburg, Sweden, June 1996, on behalf of the AIC.

Booklets and papers

A Theory of Colors in Combination - A Descriptive Model Related to the NCS Color Order System" $11.75   Prof. A. Hard and Prof. L. Sivik, 2000. Offprint from Color Research & Application, Volume 26, number 1, February 2001. 25 Pages.

“NCS - Natural Color System:
A Swedish Standard for Color Notation” $11.750 Anders Hård & Lars Sivik - an off-print from the American COLOR RESEARCH AND APPLICATION, Number 3, Sept 81, 10 pages.
 

 “Color Space vs Color Relation Space” $11.75
Aspects on the psychometrics of color
Paper presented at the AIC Midterm Tokyo Symposium 79 by A. Hård.

“Outlines of a Theory of Colors in Combination” $11.75
Man-environment systems 9:217-228, 1979 by
Anders Hård and Lars Sivik.
 

 “25 Years of Color With the AIC - and 25000 Without” $14.50  Gunnar Tonnquist. An off-print from the American COLOR RESEARCH AND APPLICATION, Volume 18 Number 5, June 93, 13 pages.
 

Other booklets

Contemporary Colours -  $18.00   A booklet which presents some of the best Nordic architectural color design of 2000, where color and painting have been used professionally in a stimulating way. Inspiring 48 pages with a lot of colorful photos.

Colour Visions $18.00   A booklet which presents some of the best Nordic architectural color design of 1998, where color and painting have been used professionally in a stimulating way. Inspiring 48 pages with a lot of colorful photos.
 

NCS translation keys

RAL - NCS Edition 2  $35.00  Translation key with exact NCS notations and nearest NCS sample for the approx. 190 RAL colors.

Munsell - NCS Edition 2  $62.00  Translation key with the Munsell colors analyzed with the exact NCS notations and nearest NCS sample.

Euroscale - NCS Edition 2  $62.00  Translation key for the four color printing process colors analyzed and notated according to NCS
  

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