CMYK color model CMYK color model The CMYK color model (process color, four color) is a subtractive color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself. CMYK refers to the four inks used in some color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. The CMYK model works by partially or entirely masking colors on a lighter, usually white, background. The ink reduces the light that would otherwise be reflected. Such a model is called "subtractive" because inks "subtract" the colors red, green and blue from white light. White light minus red leaves cyan, white light minus green
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