CMYK

[Aaron Drews]

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Russ McClay wrote:

}On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
}>
}>      AOL has a Computing Webopaedia.  The word of the day is "CMYK."  It's at
}> http://aol.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/C/CMYK.html.
}>      CMYK stands for Cyam-Magenta-Yellow-Black.  The first letters of each
}> word were in bold.
}>      Er, so wouldn't that be CMYB?
}
}Perhaps concern for confusing B for Blue.

        Most older monitors (or Visual Display Units) were RGB (red green
blue), as are HTML colors.  So, "B" does mean blue, but in a slightly
different context. When I was working in desktop publishing, we sometimes
had to convert RGB and CMYK values, and I guess saying "change B to 23 %"
might have been a bit confusing.

        --Aaron


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