But the right color for the right consumer in the right region sells even better. That is how our Color Experts use the ground-breaking Color Navigator System to eliminate any doubt. By making a clear color profile based on your market data and target audience, we are able to predict and map which colors will work. Communicating those choices across divisions has never been easier.
We can positively change the outcome of any project by developing a Company Color Framework and consistently implementing it for a brand, interior or product range. Better yet, these improvements are measurable over time. Depending on your own expertise and needs you can use our services or system on demand and use your tailored color dashboard at any level and across all divisions. Color is the first thing that people remember about a brand. Any communication, regardless of which color is used, will be seen as consistent and recognizable by the consumer. Brand guidelines will never be the same again!
We love to work together with our clients as a long term partner for innovation, color, trends and design along the entire process. A long-term collaboration is the optimal way for us to secure real sustainable, commercial and operational results. Our Color & Design Studio and Timelabps_ teams can be deployed at any time of your innovation or design process.
We work for esteemed and large businesses as well as passionate and smaller companies all over the world. Together we've achieved spectacular commercial results. Let’s meet and work together so we can show you how color can change the future of your project or company in no time.
Our color experts come from different disciplines and have very diverse backgrounds. By working and researching projects for our customers for over 20 years, we have gathered priceless color knowledge and data that we can share in every new project. We work on projects from our offices and studios, but can also work closely with your teams as a colleague on a semi-permanent basis.
The institute works closely together with independent and international color experts as well as art institutes & universities. The Color Navigator System is part of various educational or research programs involving color. We invest heavily in offering support to the color and creative professionals of tomorrow. As a member of different international color associations, we believe sharing knowledge with other professionals is key!
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The Color Navigator System is comprised of 10.000 colors with a unique passport, revealing the type of a color or consumer, its style and the cultural or geographical relevance of its use. Choosing and combining the right colors for your design, specific customer or territory has never been easier and more precise.
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Professionals worldwide use the Color Navigator system to develop distinct and recognizable color frameworks for their company, brand, products and collection, in order to create consistent experiences for consumers. Mapping colors towards your future goals is important. Customers will come back to you when their experience is fresh and innovative, but still feels familiar.
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The groundbreaking CN Smart Match opens up a whole new array of possibilities to create impactful color combinations while working in a targeted, fast and cost-effective way. All Color Navigator colors are perfectly reproducible. They come with Lab, sRGB and CMYK values as well as our Color Navigator System ICC profile.
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The Big One is the "must have" for every professional working with color. It is comprised of the 7.810 CN colors, the Smart Match navigation, a tool kit with profiling masks, a color finder as well as a comprehensive manual about color and the CN basics.
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The Active One is comprised of 2.105 CN colors. It is without a doubt the smartest color fan deck in the world. Thanks to its compact size and ease of use, it is the perfect color consulting tool, even when you are on the move. A perfect match with our CN Color Catch Nano.
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The Digital One is a state of the art web based platform that allows you to work with all 10.000 CN colors and other color banks of your choice. You can choose colors & create color palettes, profile colors, match & compare colors, import colors and access tutorials, moods boards for inspiration and how-to's.
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The first step is choosing color. By making a clear color profile for a company, a brand or a product line, we are able to define colors that will work and are based on the targeted consumer, the sales territory and what the color will be used for. We eliminate any doubt and boost time for creativity.
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Color Navigator is providing solutions for different applications in color measuring & viewing. The multi-spectral imaging systems by Caddon, Barbieri and Colorix are all "best in class" measuring & calibration devices. Viewing color under calibrated lighting conditions is taken care by Caddon and Just Normlicht. Contact us for more info on these indispensable products.
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Color Navigator System is integrated in leading design- and RIP software for the printing and other industries. Partnerships like Isocolor make it possible to accurately reproduce colors with pigments, dying formulas, etc. This way we guarantee your color choices will also be close to the final result.
