CMY(K)

The CMYK color system is the color system used for printing and painting. When we mix colors using paint or printing process, we are using the subtractive color method. Subtractive color mixing can be demonstrated with colored filters. Such filters absorb a range of light wavelengths, and the color of the filter is the color of light that is transmitted by the filter. The most frequently used colors for subtractive color mixing are cyan, magenta and yellow. Our model illustrates the action of primary color filters both singly and in pairs. If all three colors are overlapped in effectively equal mixture, all the light is subtracted giving black. Subtractive color mixing is more complex than the additive color mixing. Aditive color mixing systems start with darkness, substractive color mixing starts with light, usually white light.