NCS Gloss Scale is a tool that shows the appearance of gloss with greyscale colours which is useful when defining and specifying gloss on surfaces. The tool makes it possible for the user to make gloss comparisons both within and between different lightness areas regardless of the colour that the user is working with. By this, any surface colour can be analysed and defined.
NCS Gloss Scale is compiled in a pocket-sized block where the colour samples can be fanned out, isolated from other colours and gloss levels and placed against different surfaces. Four colours from the greyscale are included, based on the lightness distribution in the NCS Colour Space. The colours are white, light grey, medium grey and black. For each colour area, seven gloss levels are given, ranging from full matt to high gloss. Each sample has information on the name of the gloss level, the colour sample’s gloss value, NCS Notation and the colour sample’s approximate lightness values, which in turn facilitate selection and comparison of a chromatic colour.