CcMmYK color model shades of cyan or magenta on the pure CMYK ink configuration. Usually when printing a dark color the printer will saturate the area with colored ink dots, but will use fewer ink dots to create the effect of a light color. The result is hard to notice with yellow because yellow is perceived as a very light color. However, the individual cyan and magenta ink dots will stand out in a sparse pattern due to their darker color against a white background; the result is undesirable when it is noticed. By using light cyan or magenta, the printer can saturate
Carolina blue due to contrast issues and section 509 web requirements. Oddly enough none of the colors match the selected Pantone 542 which would be a hex value of , RGB of (102,153,194), and a cmyk value of 47,21,0,24. The North Carolina Tar Heels athletics department has their own formulation for Carolina blue. Carolina athletics blue has the same CMYK color representation as the university's version of Carolina blue, but the RGB representation for Carolina athletics blue is Red 123, Green 175, and Blue 212. This results in a Hex code of , the official matching hex code for Pantone 542 C.