the tool I’ve always wanted

…but didn’t know actually existed:

I joined a course in use of colours at NCS Norwegian Colour Senter, and came back to the studio not only with extended knowledge of colours in architecture, but also with a brilliant little tool: the NCS Colourpin! It’s the magic tool I’ve always wanted. Super easy to use, in combination with a smartphone: you just put it against the coloured surface, and tap “scan” in your phone app. This little work of wonders then immediately tells you the the NCS/RAL etc. colour code, it gives the exact composition of % black/blue/red/yellow, and can even tell where you can find tiles, paint, furniture etc. with this exact colour.

I’ve just started to explore the possibilities, so I’m not exactly a pro user yet. But so far I’ve used it to find answer to one of my ever returning questions: colour codes for painted walls in interior magazines (no, not necessarily the code they used to paint the wall, but the colour I see on the pictures, which is what I’m after anyway), and to get on my family’s nerves by stopping at every storefront façade in the center of Paris on a recent weekend trip to sample all the beautiful Parisian colours. They’ll get used to it.

(This is not an ad, by the way, I’ve paid for both the course and the Colourpin myself, I’m just a very happy customer!)

I also added photos to my “Paris” colour palette to remember where I found the various colours, but that’s just an option, not a necessity.

Finally an answer to my ever returning question: what color is that wall`in the magazine?