Colour Systems Primer Tutorial

Colour Systems Primer Tutorial

We want to talk, today, about Colour (Space) Systems. There are, at least …

• additive colour systems … used in science … often used to define web colours … red, green and blue are the primary colours
• subtractive colour systems … used by artists (and often the way we learn colours in early school) … often used with regard to printing … red, yellow and blue are the primary colours
• the CMYK colour system … used by printing industry … cyan, magenta, yellow and black are the primary colours

You can read more about the comparisons and a description of these three at Colour Systems – RGB and CYMK.

We’ve got a small HTML and Javascript conversion program we call cmyk_rgb.html (and that you can use as a live run) which you can use today to convert a given colour to and from RGB and CYMK colour systems.

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