A Conversation for Web-safe Colours
CYMK
aleph0 Started conversation Mar 31, 2001
I was just wondering why CYMK (Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, [Black]), one of the subtractive blending schemes, is not mentioned.
CYMK
typolifi Posted Apr 16, 2001
They are mentioned, as "secondary colours". Why secondary? because CMYK is the base set for printing, but not for light. When you mix a Cyan ray of light with a Magenta and a Yellow one, it doesn't give you a white ray. Whereas when you mix a Red one with a Green and a Blue, it works.
That's why RGB is the fundamental set of colours for a computer screen.
That's also why we have problems when transfering images from the RGB to the CMYK, for instance we can't get the colours we saw on our screen. It's because the system change does not fully correspond to our eyes. They try to do WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interconnections between the two, but it isn't always successful.
CYMK
six7s Posted May 6, 2002
Hi!
Cyan is 00FFF (only 5 bits)
Magenta is FF00FF(6 bits)
Yellow is FFFF00 (also 6 bits)
Should Cyan be 00FFFF ?
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