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NCS S 0505-Y40R
What color is NCS S 0505-Y40R?
NCS S 0505-Y40R is a very light and soft peach color.
It belongs to the NCS color system, which is based on how humans perceive colors.
NCS stands for Natural Color System, and it uses six elementary colors: white, black, yellow, red, green, and blue.
The NCS notation for a color consists of a letter and four digits.
The letter indicates the hue, which can be one of the elementary colors or a combination of two adjacent ones.
The first digit indicates the blackness, which is the percentage of black in the color.
The second digit indicates the chromaticness, which is the percentage of the hue in the color.
The last two digits indicate the nuance, which is the proportion of the two elementary colors in the hue.
For example, NCS S 0505-Y40R means that the color has 5% blackness, 5% chromaticness, and a hue that is a mixture of yellow and red, with 40% red and 60% yellow.
Example of the palette with the NCS S 0505-Y40R color
![Palette with colors: Smoky black, Antique White and Saddle brown Picture with primary colors of Smoky black, Antique White, Saddle brown, Persian orange and Dark slate gray](/images/ncs-s-0505-y40r/painting-of-an-owl.webp)
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