CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, key/black), or process color, is a subtractive color model that describes each color in terms of the quantity of each pigment (cyan, magenta, yellow, and "key" or black) it contains for color printing.
Description[]
For the mixing of pigments in CMYK color printing, secondary colors are used as they combine subtractively instead of additively, as they would in RGB. The secondary colors are cyan, magenta and yellow, which correspond to the primary colors of blue, red and yellow. Although shades of gray can be obtained by mixing these three colors in equal proportions, black is included as its own ink in four-color printing for improved color reproduction. This provides the CMYK model. The K stands for "Key" or "blacK", to avoid confusion with the B (blue) in RGB.[1]
References[]
- ↑ CMYK at the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing. 1994-12-22.
External links[]
- CMYK and 4 color printing at Computer Hope
- CMYK color model at Wikipedia
