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NCS S 7020-Y50R
What color is NCS S 7020-Y50R?
NCS S 7020-Y50R is a dark brown color with a reddish hue.
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 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 ranges from 0 (no black) to 9 (maximum black).
The second digit indicates the chromaticness, which ranges from 0 (no color) to 9 (maximum color).
The last two digits indicate the nuance, which is the proportion of the two elementary colors in the hue.
For example, S 7020-Y50R means that the hue is a mixture of yellow and red, with 50% yellow and 50% red.
The blackness is 70%, the chromaticness is 20%, and the nuance is Y50R.
Example of the palette with the NCS S 7020-Y50R color
![Palette with colors: Smoky black, Sienna and Corn Picture with primary colors of Smoky black, Sienna, Corn, University of California Gold and Citrine](/images/ncs-s-7020-y50r/cake-with-many-different-colored-icing-on-it.webp)
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