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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 (most often black).
The most noticeable result of using light cyan and light magenta inks is the removal of a distinct and harsh halftone or dither dot appearance that appears in prints that use light shades of cyan or magenta on the pure CMYK ink configuration. Usually when printing a dark color the printer will saturate the area with colored ink dots, but will ...
The first printed photo using a halftone in a Canadian periodical, October 30, 1869 A multicolor postcard (1899) printed from hand-made halftone plates. While there were earlier mechanical printing processes that could imitate the tone and subtle details of a photograph, most notably the Woodburytype, expense and practicality prohibited their being used in mass commercial printing that used ...
New version with cyan, magenta and yellow in CMYK color space (previous version uses the RGB cyan, ie with the 00FFFF hex code, magenta and yellow). Uses also the "multiply" blend mode. 19:12, 18 March 2013: 512 × 384 (5 KB) Cmglee: Rotate labels. 20:36, 8 January 2013: 512 × 455 (5 KB) Cmglee
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 June 2024. Colors are an important part of visual arts, fashion, interior design, and many other fields and disciplines. The following is a list of colors. A number of the color swatches below are taken from domain-specific naming schemes such as X11 or HTML4. RGB values are given for each swatch ...
For example, consider the color where the red/green/blue values are decimal numbers: red=123, green=58, blue=30 (a hardwood brown color). The decimal numbers 123, 58, and 30 are equivalent to the hexadecimal numbers 7B, 3A, and 1E, respectively. The hex triplet is obtained by concatenating the six hexadecimal digits together, 7B3A1E in this ...
Note that the position (top, right) of the starting color, typically red, is arbitrary, as is the order of green and blue (clockwise, counter-clockwise). The illustration also shows the secondary colors, yellow, cyan, and magenta, located halfway between (60 degrees) the primary colors.