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Usability Glossary: CMYK


cyan-magenta-yellow-black; a color model that specifies any given color as the combination of 4 base colors, commonly used in printers. While the RGB model is based on combining projected colors (an additive system), the CMYK model is based on using colors to progressively block out portions of the color spectrum (a subtractive system).

see also

HSV
RGB
web-safe color palette

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