RAL colours

More than 80 years ago RAL began to clearly identify colour tones, gave the colours definite numbers and names and with that paved the way: one unified language was created for the world of colour. What began in 1927 with a table of colours containing 40 colour tones, that were in particular deamand by the public and industry, has today grown to the number of 2325 colour tones, always answering new demand. Through strict quality control the users are being offered the highest precision. Thus in 80 years an exemplary success story was written, today the RAL-colours are a worldwide determining standard in industry, trades and design as well as for the professional colour users.

In the mean time three independent collections exist that complement each other perfectly for the professional colour design: RAL EFFECT, RAL CLASSIC and RAL DESIGN.

RAL EFFECT

The newly developed colour palette RAL EFFECT is setting new standards today in ingenius colouring, environmental orientation and simple manufacturing. RAL even realised the wish for a stronger design variety in the heavily industrial area of colour utilisation: The new collection contains 420 uni- and as a particular highlight 70 metallic-colour tones. RAL EFFECT is also the first collection from a prominent colour standardiser, which is based on a waterbased paint system. The use of lead, cadmium and chromates is out of the question. Thus RAL also lives up to their responsibility to the environment in the area of colour tone cards. Securing a simple and cost effective production of paint materials plays an important part in the development of RAL EFFECT, alongside the aspect of environmental impact. The road from the colour original to the metamerism free paint was decidedly improved. Here again RAL EFFECT sets the current bench-mark.

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RAL CLASSIC

Industry and trade have conformed to the RAL-colour cards for decades with all of the 210 firmly defined RAL CLASSIC-colours. The „CLASSICs“ are essentail for all who (verbindlich) work with colours. Colour number plus colour name assure clear communication, for example, when ordering a chosen colour tone. In daily practice this means that the world over „RAL 3000 fire red“ is the same colour tone. Whether commercial vehicles or garage doors, venetian blinds or facades – RAL CLASSIC is the epicentre in all areas of application.

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RAL DESIGN System

In contrast to the arbitrary colour numbers of RAL CLASSIC, the colours in RAL DESIGN system are systematically arranged by hue, brightness, and saturation. This system was mainly developed for demanding colour design. Thus it is the colour system of choice for architects, designers or ad agencies – nationally and internationally. With its 1624 systematically arranged, colourmetrical defined colour tones the system is a perfect instrument for demanding decorative colour designs. In 2007 the RAL DESIGN system was revised and now contains 26 new pastel- colour tones. Creative colour designs demand a multitude of colour nuances – RAL DESIGN fulfills that demand with the highest precision.

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