Understanding Resene Total Colour System codes The Resene Total Colour System codes follow a format of B63-084-258, enabling specifiers and decorators to make direct comparisons on three attributes between multiple colours. The first letter or letters tells you what colour group the colour is from: B = Blue, BR = Brown, G = Green, M = Metallics, N = Neutral, O = Orange, R = Red,V = Violet,Y = Yellow. The first digits denote the colour’s luminance, with 0 being approximately black and 100 being approximately white. The second set of digits denotes the saturation of the colour or how far from grey the colour is. That is, the lower the number the more grey in the colour, the higher the number the cleaner the colour is. For example, Resene Black (black) has a value of 000 while Resene Turbo Y84-198-087 (bright yellow) has a value of 198. The last set of digits tells you where the colour sits on a wheel of colour of 0 to 360 degrees.This allows you to place multiple colours into a sequence and determine the relative positioning of colours. By comparing multiple colours using the Resene Total Colour System codes you can establish whether a colour is greyer or cleaner, brighter or darker and where they sit on a colour wheel. B63-084-258 greyness/ saturation palette luminance colour wheel position Resene Havelock Blue Y84-198-087 greyness/ saturation palette luminance colour wheel position Resene Turbo B63-084-258 Y84-198-087 Colour wheel position Resene Half Grey Chateau 18 |