"CMYK" redirects here. For the EP by James Blake, see CMYK (EP).
"CMYB" redirects here. For the cMyb gene, see MYB (gene).
Color printing typically uses ink of four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
When subtractive CMY inks are combined at full strength, pairwise combinations are red, green, and blue. Combining all three gives an imperfect black color.
What appears as cerulean () in the top image is actually a blend of cyan, magenta, yellow and black, as magnification under a microscope demonstrates.
The CMYK color model (also known as process color, or four color) is a subtractive color model, based on the CMY color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself. The abbreviation CMYK refers to the four ink plates used: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black).
The CMYK model works by partially or entirely masking colors on a lighter, usually white, background. The ink reduces the light that would otherwise be reflected. Such a model is called subtractive because inks "subtract" the colors red, green and blue from white light; white light minus red leaves cyan, white light minus green leaves magenta, and white light minus blue leaves yellow.
In additive color models, such as RGB, white is the "additive" combination of all primary colored lights, and black is the absence of color. In the CMYK model, it is the opposite: white is the natural color of the paper or other background, black results from a full combination of colored inks. To save cost on ink, and to produce deeper black tones, unsaturated and dark colors are produced by using black ink instead of or in addition to the combination of cyan, magenta, and yellow.
Jumbotron. Color printers, on the other hand, are not RGB devices, but subtractive color devices typically using the CMYKcolormodel. To form a color with...
the traditional RYB colormodel, the latter emerging in conjunction with the CMYKcolormodel in the printing industry. This model was used for printing...
intensity compared to the traditional RYB colormodel, the latter emerging in conjunction with the CMYKcolormodel in the printing industry. The first scholars...
floating-point values for all three coordinates. Unlike the RGB and CMYKcolormodels, CIELAB is designed to approximate human vision. The L* component...
subtractive color models are the CMYKcolormodel, CMY colormodel and RYB colormodel.: 6.2 The CMYKmodel used in color printing uses cyan, magenta, yellow...
blue. In the subtractive color system, or CMYKcolormodel, which can be overlaid to produce all colors in paint and color printing, cyan is one of the...
colors, such as the RGB and CMYKcolormodels.) A uniform color space (UCS) is a colormodel that seeks to make the color-making attributes perceptually...
quadruples in CMYK); however, a colormodel with no associated mapping function to an absolute color space is a more or less arbitrary color system with...
complementary color of green, and combining green and magenta light on a black screen will create white. In the CMYKcolormodel, used in color printing,...
screens using the RGB colormodel and in printing with the CMYKcolormodel. As such, it is an arbitrary classification of color. Below is a list of some...
color libraries. Color chart – other color systems and charts CMYKcolormodel Freetone – A collection of 1,280 colors that mimic the Pantone color palette...
RGB colormodel and in printing with the CMYKcolormodel. Browns can also be created by mixing two complementary colors from the RYB colormodel (combining...
color printing and typical mass production photomechanical printing processes, a black ink K (Key) component is included, resulting in the CMYKcolor...
the halftone process for each subtractive color – most commonly using what is called the "CMYKcolormodel". The semi-opaque property of ink allows halftone...
secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYKcolormodel used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment...
primary color in the RGB colormodel and a secondary color (made from magenta and yellow) in the CMYKcolormodel, and is the complementary color of cyan...
the same logic applies as to colors produced by light. Color printing uses the CMYKcolormodel, making colors by overprinting cyan, magenta, yellow, and...
and vector images. The platform distributes its content under a freemium model, which means that users can access much of the content for free, but it...
affects focusing. Chromatic aberration manifests itself as "fringes" of color along boundaries that separate dark and bright parts of the image. There...
Brown is a color. It can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. In the CMYKcolormodel used in printing and painting...
colors for a given color model or color space. RGB and CMYKcolormodels are popular colormodels in modern color science, but are only chosen as efficient...
light pink. Process yellow is not an RGB color, and in the CMYKcolormodel there is no fixed conversion from CMYK primaries to RGB. Different formulations...
1970s, color negative film and color prints had largely displaced slides as the primary method of amateur photography. Until about 1995, color transparency...
Organizations such as Fogra, European Color Initiative and SWOP publish colorimetric CMYK standards for the printing industry. Color theorists since the seventeenth...
is printed. Dot gain calculations are often an important part of a CMYKcolormodel. It is defined as the increase in the area fraction (of the inked or...
orange hue. In the RGB color spectrum, it often consists only of the color red, with no green or blue component; in the CMYKcolormodel blood red has no cyan...
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