5. Colour contrasts

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.
 
Specification

The difference between whiteness and lightness, lightness assessment, colour phenomena and simultaneous contrast.

5.1 LIGHTNESS SIMILARITY

Trains your ability to judge the lightness of chromatic colours.

    24 colour samples
    Sample size: 23×23 mm
    Old product reference: K1

5.2 SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST IN: LIGHTNESS

Shows on a grey scale how the lightness of a colour sample is changed through the influence of the background.

    13 colour samples
    Sample size: 23×23 mm
    Old product reference: K2

5.3 HUE & NUANCE

Shows how colour changes with different backgrounds.

    10 colour samples
    Sample size: 27×52 mm
    Old product reference: K4

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