What Are The Classifications Of Fabric Color Cards?

Color card is the embodiment of colors in nature on certain materials. It can help designers to select and compare colors, so as to facilitate color communication between manufacturers and customers. It is a tool to realize unified color standards. Of course, different countries and regions, different industries between the application of color card standards are not consistent, if you are a textile industry workers, you need to understand and master the following several kinds of fabric color card.

1. Pantone color card

Pantone is an international standard color card. It is commonly known as Pantone in Chinese. The application scope of this color card covers printing, textile, plastic, drawing, digital technology and other fields. It is one of the commonly used color standards for the exchange of color information. The special color card for textile industry is Pantone TX card, which is divided into Pantone TPG (paper card) and Pantone TCX (cotton card). And Pantone c card and u card are used more in the printing industry.

2. CNCs color card

Since 2001, China Textile Information Center has undertaken the "China applied color research project" of the Ministry of science and technology, and established the CNCs color system. After that, we carried out extensive color research, collected color information through the trend research department of the center, China Fashion Color Association, foreign partners, purchasers and designers, and carried out market research. After several years of efforts, the first version of the color system has been developed, and the materials and processes used have been determined. The first three digits are hue, the middle two digits are lightness, and the last two digits are chromaticity.

3. Ral color card

Ral refers to the German Raul color card, which is mainly the European color card standard and widely used in the world. This kind of color card is widely used in coatings, paints, plastics and other industries. Ral classic series has a total of 213 colors, including 188 body colors, 2 mica iron colors, 5 bright colors and 15 pearlescent colors. Each color in this classic series has a certain significance, not just a fashion trend.

In short, ral color card is a color reference standard, it is the embodiment of a certain color in nature on the card tools, designers can choose colors according to the color card, and then give it to the manufacturing department for production. Through a unified reference standard, color selection, comparison and communication can be realized. At present, there are many brands of color cards, ral color card is only one of the more commonly used, and there are many models under ral color card brand, users need to pay attention to distinguish when using.

4. Munsell color card

This color card is named after Munsell, an American colorist. Munsell's color system has been revised repeatedly and has become one of the recognized standard color systems in the color field.

5. NCS color card

NCS research began in 1611, and has become the national inspection standard of Sweden, Norway, Spain and other countries. It is a widely used color system in Europe. NCS color card can identify the basic characteristics of color through color number, such as blackness, chroma, whiteness and hue. NCS color card number describes the visual characteristics of color, which has nothing to do with pigment formula and optical parameters.