Shades of blue pigment blue, is the tone of blue that is achieved by mixing process (printer's) cyan and process (printer's) magenta in equal proportions. It is displayed at right. The purpose of the CMYK color system is to provide the maximum possible gamut of color reproducible in printing by the use of only three primaries. The color indicated is only approximate as the colors of printing inks may vary. The color defined as "blue" in the NCS or Natural Color System is an azure-like color shown at right (NCS 2060-B). The Natural Color System is a color system based on the four
Blue–green distinction in language from light blue to light grey. However, the term for a green apple, such as a Granny Smith, would be "ubhal glas". The boundary between colors varies much more than the "focal point": e.g. an island known in Breton as "Enez glas ("the blue island")" is called in French "l'Île Verte ("the green island")", in both cases referring to the greyish-green color of its bushes, even though both languages distinguish green (as in lawn grass) from blue (as in a cloudless midday sky). The Romance terms for "green" (Catalan ', French ', Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish ') are all