NCS Educational Material

Colour choices A book on colours, colour design and colour science research – an inspiration when choosing colours PRODUCT DESCRIPTION This book presents colour research findings which can be of great use in interior and exterior design. It gives an introduction to the field of colour science and provides inspiration and assistance when choosing colours, both for products and for environments. The author Berit Bergström is Senior Advisor and teaching at the NCS Colour Academy.

COLOUR SIMILARITIES – Training in visual similarities among colours PRODUCT DESCRIPTION This exercise includes similarities in blackness, whiteness and chromaticness.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The first out of totally six colour exercise kits from NCS Colour Academy. Completed excercise set covering the understanding of a colour’s elementary properties and the difference between hue and nuance. The three included exercises train our colour perception and are fundamental for all other colour exercises.

COLOUR CONTRASTS – Training in colour phenomena and colour influences PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Trains your ability to judge the lightness of chromatic colours.

HOW THE NCS SYSTEM WORKS, STEP 1 – Training and understanding the NCS symbols PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The second of a total of six colour exercise kits from NCS Colour Academy. Exercises which train your ability to judge the hue and nuance of colours and how to arrange them in the NCS colour triangle and colour circle. As a result you will learn to decode the NCS colour notations and the logic behind them.

COLOUR CONTRASTS – Training in colour phenomena and colour influences PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Shows on a grey scale how the lightness of a colour sample is changed through the influence of the background.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The third of a total of six colour exercise kits from NCS Colour Academy. The second step in how the NCS system works. The exercises combine hue and nuance and show how these attributes can be used to describe colours in a simple and clear way.

COLOUR CONTRASTS – Training in colour phenomena and colour influences PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Shows how colour changes with different backgrounds.

COLOUR SIMILARITIES – Training in visual similarities among colours PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The fourth of a total of six colour exercise kits from NCS Colour Academy. Trains your ability to recognise and analyse similarities and differences between certain colours. You will understand and be able to practise how the NCS symbols describe these similarities in a logical way.

COLOUR CONTRASTS – Training in colour phenomena and colour influences PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The fifth of a total of six colour exercise kits from NCS Colour Academy. Learn how the contast between a light and a dark colour will differ when combined with other colours. Lightness is not an elementary property. It is a value defined in relation to the grey scale. Trains your ability to register and explain colour phenomena and how colours influence each other when they are seen at the same time.

ADVANCED COLOUR SIMILARITIES – Training in a high level of ability to distinguish between colours PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Advanced similarity exercises covering blackness, whiteness and chromaticness.