NCS Index 2050

New! The NCS Index 2050 is an updated version of the most popular NCS Colour product used by colour professionals globally. The NCS Index 2050 is a fan deck that includes all 2050
NCS Standard colours including the 100 new colours in a convenient, portable format.  A highly optimised colour sorting based both on user preferences and the NCS Colour Circle makes it easy to quickly find the right colour for your project.

How the colours are arranged:

People generally start with the hue when looking for a colour “Am I looking for a lime green, a yellow or orange?”

• The NCS Index 2050 offers therefore a hue-based sorting, following the NCS Colour Circle, to allow navigation among the 2050 colours quick and easy.
• Within each hue-section  the colours are arranged by nuance, following the NCS Colour Triangle.
• The nuances go from low chromaticness to high chromaticness (from pale to strong).
• In the flow from top to bottom, the colours are sorted by increasing blackness.
• White and pure colours are positioned at the top and deeper shades at the bottom.

For low chromatic colours, people generally change the principle by which they search for a specific colour. For whitish and greyish colours, the nuance of the colour is much more significant
than the hue.

Therefore, in the Index 2050 all low chromatic colours are sorted by nuance and can be found in the first section of the Index fan deck.

Suitable for designers, architects and colour professionals worldwide for definition and communication of colour.

If you are working with shiny surfaces such as gloss paint 1950 colours are still available with a gloss finish in the  NCS Glossy Index  

This product is produced to NCS Quality Level 1 according to ASTM E2970 & SS 19104. Quality reports are available at ncscolour.com2*

The NCS Atlas 2050 can be used for presentations to clients as this shows more easily the relationships between the colours in NCS colour space, alternatively A4 and A6 NCS sheets of all 2,050 colours can be ordered from stock.