Let your brilliance shine through

The Vanceva color studio offers thousands of transparent or translucent glass colors—giving architects and designers more creative freedom with glass than ever before. Combining foundational colors produces a broad spectrum of colors and moods that are otherwise unachievable using stock selections of glass, including transparent, translucent, and opaque options to create the desired tone and intensity.

The system is based on a foundational palette of 16 basic colors that can be combined in up to four layers to produce custom-colored glass. Each Vanceva color has been assigned a four-digit number, derived from the combination and order of the foundational color layers. When Vanceva color interlayers are combined with tinted or reflective glass, the design possibilities are nearly limitless.

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Color durability

Make a lasting impression. With Vanceva, your vision will be on display for a long time. That’s because our color PVB interlayers are manufactured to stay vivid for long-lasting color. Vanceva interlayers are created with heat- and light-stable colorants to provide years of beauty.  Color laminated glass made with Vanceva also offers valuable UV protection. It can block up to 99% of damaging UV radiation up to 380 nm and reduce solar heat gain.

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Incorporate dynamic colors with Vanceva PVB colored interlayer.
 
 

Foundation colors

Similar to the CMYK color system most often used in printing, Vanceva’s foundation palette consists of eight basic colors available in two light transmission levels of pink, blue, and grey—allowing architects, designers, and glass fabricators to layer several different color interlayers together, in different intensity levels, to create thousands of color possibilities.

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Specialty colors

With Vanceva Deep Red, True Blue, Tangerine or Ocean Grey, you can also choose from very concentrated colored pigments in a single interlayer to add brilliant hues to laminated glass

Translucent colors

With the low light transmittance of Vanceva Polar White, the medium light transmittance of Vanceva Arctic Snow, or the beautifully frosted high light transmission of Vanceva Cool White, you can create ambience and elegance through translucency and opacity. 

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Solid colors

Vanceva Polar White (color F) and Absolute Black (color G) interlayers are solid colors that can be combined with any other color selection to make that color near opaque, while at the same time creating completely different looks on each side of the glass.

How to specify Vanceva™ Colors

The Vanceva color system offers thousands of translucent glass colors – giving  architects and designers more creative freedom with glass than ever before.

Choose from one to four layers of foundational Vanceva color interlayers to construct custom-colored laminated glass. The maximum recommended number of layers is four, therefore, each Vanceva color has been assigned a four-character number. Each character represents a layer from the Vanceva palette used to create all Vanceva color interlayer combinations.

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The illustration details an example of a four-layer Vanceva color code and each
corresponding color associated with the final glass makeup. An example of a one-layer combination would be Vanceva 0006, while an example of a two-layer color combination would be Vanceva 0067, etc.

How the Vanceva color code works

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Soothing Earth Tones

Architects and designers now have an innovative option to expand their creative boundaries and fulfill their vision without sacrificing structural integrity: Vanceva™ Earth Tones, a collection of polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayers in shades of blue, grey, green, brown, and bronze.

Earth Tone color codes are designated by beginning with “S” and are a single color, they are not comprised of layers of Vanceva Color (for example: S7558 is an Earth Tone blue, but cannot be created with Vanceva 0007+0005 +0005+0008).

For those familiar with our former Earth Tones Color names, click here to get our conversion table. 

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How much privacy do you need? 

With the Vanceva White Collection, designers and architects can create private yet elegant spaces by specifying just the right light transmittance for their needs. The Vanceva White Collection can be combined with other Vanceva interlayers to achieve the right level of translucence in any color. 

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Request a samples set or a color fan

Our sample kits offer a diverse range of color collections, catering to different preferences and design needs. Whether you're looking for vibrant and bold shades or subtle and neutral tones, there is a kit available to suit your style. Requesting a sample kit through our website is a convenient process, allowing you to explore and select your desired color palette with one click.

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Design with more freedom.

Vanceva PVB interlayers can also be combined with Saflex PVB interlayers to help meet structural, acoustic, and safety requirements. Combining Vanceva with Saflex PVB interlayers provides excellent post-breakage safety because, in cases of impact, the shards of broken glass remain adhered to the interlayer, reducing risk of cuts or injury. What’s more, combing colored interlayers with clear structural, acoustic, or safety interlayers is an effective way to create memorable and safer exterior and interior safety glass without having to increase glass thickness for the desired color intensity.

Projects combining Vanceva and Saflex

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Fields of Gold at Sensor City
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston
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The Corning Museum of Glass
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Amazon Headquarters, Milan
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Vanceva interlayers deliver the value-added benefits inherent in laminated glass:

  Protecting building occupants and pedestrians from accidential glass impact, breakage, or fallout
  Providing resistance against burglary, forced-entry, ballistics, and bomb blasts
  Reducing the transmission of unwanted sound in and outside of a building's environment
  Delivering a wide range of severe windborne debris protection
  Filtering more than 99% of UV rays up to 380 nm, controlling visible transmittance and reducing glare and solar heat gain