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 Amazigh language is "Azerwal". In some dialects of Amazigh, like Shilha, the word "Azegzaw" is used for both green and blue. The color of the sky is sometimes referred to as "the green" in Classical Arabic poetry, in which it is al-khaḍrā' (). In Arabic the word for blue is generally "azraq" (). The Arabic word for green is "akhḍar" (). In Moroccan Arabic, the word for light blue is "šíbi", whereas "zraq" () stands for blue and "khḍar" () for green. The word "zrag" () is used to describe the color of a suffocated person, and is also