"G&M" wrote in
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"Danny Rich" wrote in message
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"Chris Nellist"
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Failing this, does anyone know the RGB codes for the
elementary colours (red, green, blue, yellow) used in NCS?
Or the NCS codes for the primary colours in RGB or CMY?
I have looked on loads of colour conversion sites, but
haven't been able to find even this information, anywhere!


This is because the conversion between NCS and any other color order
system
is considered commercially proprietary. Some things in life are
unfortunately, not free.

Provided it is not for commercial gain, in the EU it is legal to make
public such information. For instance the yanks tried to prosecute
the Norwegian guy who posted how to decode DVD codings and were
laughed out of court.

I think it is legal to do it even for commercial gain, e.g. to test a patch
of NCS colour and sell someone the info as to what its RGB code is.

The program EasyRGB gives NCS codes for colours that harmonise with an
input colour of specific RGB code, but unfortunately doesn't give the NCS
code for the input colour itself!!

It would be a good thing if even just the RGB codes for the NCS elementary
colours were publicly known. (Hint hint to anyone reading this who has got
the information!)

Chris