The
Color Chart
The 208-color chart is defined in seven color codes or languages: NCS (Natural Color System), RGB, CMYK, Munsell, CIELab, Pantone and Hex.
The equivalence of each NCS in RGB, CMYK, CIELab and Hex codes, we have taken from the NCS application, https://app.ncscolour.com/.
The Munsell equivalences are taken from the NCS Munsell Key document, available on the Internet.
The Pantone equivalences are taken from the website https://hex-to-rgb.com/ from the Hex code.
In addition, each color has a name that is composed of three parts: first the base color, then the measured object or atmosphere, and finally the place where it was found.
Why can colors look different?
The color displayed next to the image and the color that is superimposed when hovering over it correspond to the same RGB and Hexadecimal. The perceptual difference occurs for several reasons: The color in the image may be in a different color space than in the browser, i.e. if the image uses AdobeRGB or ProPhotoRGB, the colors may look different. On the other hand some programs may slightly alter the colors due to compression and color profile conversion, also some monitors apply different color profiles, as well as Windows and macOS handle color management differently, which may cause the same HEX code to look different on each device. The brightness and color temperature of the display also plays a role. A color that looks the same in one environment may look different in another. Chrome and Firefox browsers, for example, may handle image ICC profiles differently. And finally, the overlay color can be influenced by accompanying black text, as Josef Albers observes in his book “Interaction Of Color”.