SILICONE & ACRYLIC COLOUR RANGE

When it comes to choosing a colour for a silicone or acrylic render, there are literally hundreds to choose from and the colours that we offer in our standard colour range are merely a selection of the most popular colours available.

It is easy to understand therefore, that to easily identify a specific colour, a widely recognisable colour scheme must be utilised.

When referencing colours, WBS use The NCS-Natural Colour System®© as it is the only colour system that describes colours exactly as we see them, which is why it is easy to understand, logical and simple to use.

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THE NCS NATURAL COLOUR SYSTEM ®©

The NCS system begins with six elementary colours; four chromatic elementary colours, Yellow (Y), Red (R), Blue (B) and Green (G), and two non-chromatic elementary colours, White (W) and Black (S).

NCS colour notations are based on how much a given colour appears to resemble two or more of these six elementary colours.

THE NCS COLOUR CIRCLE

The NCS Colour Circle takes the four chromatic elementary colours and places them at right angles, like points on a compass. Each quadrant between two of these elementary colours is divided into 100 equal points, on our diagram every 10th point is indicated.

NCS NOTATIONS

The way in which NCS colours are written (their notation) follows a specific pattern – this is generally the letter ‘S’, followed by 4 numbers that indicate the colours nuance (i.e. the degree of resemblance to whiteness and blackness); and a letter, two numbers and another letter that indicates the hue, which describes the degree of resemblance between the four chromatic elementary colours.

The NCS notation shown in our example is 1050-Y90R.

1050 describes the nuance, i.e. the degree of resemblance from whiteness to blackness
(which is 10%) and to the chromaticness (which is 50%).

The hue Y90R describes the degree of resemblance between Yellow and Red (Y and R).
Y90R describes yellow with 90% redness and 10% yellowness.

Pure grey colours have no hue and are given nuance notations followed by -N to describe Neutral. The pure grey scale is a scale from white (0300-N) to black (9000-N).