Color printing yields yellow, red and blue yields magenta (a purple hue), and green and blue yield cyan (a turquoise hue). Only yellow is counter-intuitive. Yellow, cyan and magenta are merely the "basic" secondary colors: unequal mixtures of the primaries give rise to perception of many other colors all of which may be considered "tertiary." While there are many techniques for reproducing images in color, specific graphic processes and industrial equipment are used for mass reproduction of color images on paper. In this sense, "color printing" involves reproduction techniques suited for printing presses capable of thousands or millions of impressions for publishing
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