Color mixing correspond to ideal subtractive color mixing because some light from the subtracted color is still being reflected by one component of the original paint. This results in a darker and desaturated color compared to the color that would be achieved with ideal filters. The three primary colors in subtractive mixing that produce the largest gamut are yellow, magenta and cyan, leading to the CMYK color model widely used in color printing. Historically, painters have used yellow, red and blue in place of these, resulting in reduced gamut. In subtractive mixing of color, the absence of color is white and the
Blue–green distinction in language in classical Hebrew, can mean both green and yellow, giving rise to such expressions as (pronounced ), "leek green", to specify green to the exclusion of yellow. Like Russian and Italian, Hebrew has a separate name for light blue (, "t'khelet")—the color of the sky and of fringes on the ritual garment "Tzitzit". This color has special symbolic significance in Judaism and Jewish culture. Albanian has two major words for "blue": "kaltër" refers to a light blue, such as that of the sky, but it is derived from Vulgar Latin "calthinus", itself derived from "caltha", a loan from Ancient Greek