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Understand typesetters, media designer and printers.
Grafik-Design deals with different color systems. One of that is the so called subtractive color system which is used for printing with printing colors CMYK: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. One other system is the additive color system. Read the rest of this entry
What a brilliant and glowing color!
The color that we usually connect with fire. So fire brigades are usually painted
| H 350° | L 48 | R 193 | C 0 | Hexa# |
| S 100% | a 75 | G 0 | M100 | c1001f |
| B 76% | b 55 | B 31 | Y 100 | |
| K 0 |
Red is a very strong color and a warm color. A color that stands for energy and live!
The word red comes from the Old English word read. It can be traced to a Proto-European root reudh, and in Sanskrit the word ruhdira means red or blood.
The German word is rot. Read the rest of this entry
This color with its vivid redish, pinkish shade is named after the plant:
| H 315° | L 41 | R 161 | C 25 | Hexa# |
| S 100% | a 71 | G 0 | M 100 | a10078 |
| B 63% | b -14 | B 120 | Y 0 | |
| K 0 |
A very magenta color with a slight shade of cyan in it or a redish color, which contains some blue. Read the rest of this entry
A color that represents the harmony of universe in Chinese painting because of the nearly similar parts of Red and Blue – yin and yang:
| H 302° | L 34 | R 126 | C 50 | Hexa# |
| S 81% | a 58 | G 24 | M 100 | 7e187a |
| B 49% | b -27 | B 122 | Y 0 | |
| K 0 |
A color which we also find quite often in nature.
Or didn’t a violet run through your mind, the lovely little plant with the heart shaped leaves? Read the rest of this entry
Most people will regard this color as being female. It is a very intensive color.
Some think this color should be called violet, others think it is:
| H 273° | L 27 | R 86 | C 75 | Hexa# |
| S 69% | a 41 | G 38 | M100 | 56267d |
| B 49% | b -41 | B 125 | Y 0 | |
| K 0 |
I think it is purple.
Purple comes, as all colors, in different shades. We will see some of them when we will reduce the value of cyan tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry
Although we said, that pure cyan can be called turquoise too, this color can also be called turquoise.
| H 190° | L 55 | R 0 | C 100 | Hexa# |
| S 100% | a –54 | G 153 | M 0 | 0099b7 |
| B 72% | b –33 | B 183 | Y 25 | |
| K 0 |
There is just a little shade of yellow inside, 25%. Just enough yellow to take away the pure coldness of pure cyan, just enough to have a little bit of warmness in this color. Read the rest of this entry
Is it blue?
Is it green?
| H 177° | L 52 | R 0 | C 100 | Hexa# |
| S 100% | a -64 | G 149 | M 0 | 00958e |
| B 59% | b -12 | B 142 | Y 50 | |
| K 0 |
A bit difficult to name this color. Read the rest of this entry
A wonderful, deep green tone, which reminds me of shades of the ocean floor.
| H 162° | L 51 | R 0 | C 100 | Hexa# |
| S 100% | a –72 | G 146 | M 0 | 009266 |
| B 57% | b 11 | B 102 | Y 75 | |
| K 0 |
We just took a quarter of the yellow away, and the tone, still green, gets more coldish. Read the rest of this entry
It is getting warmer, yellow is involved.
There are so many shades of green in nature, that’s really incredible.
The green of forests is different to the green of meadows.
The first green in springs appears light and shiny, and is not comparable to the one of dusty leaves in late July or the green leaves of our Christmas trees.
I have to admit green is one of my favorite colors, not the only one. Read the rest of this entry
Yes this is the field of the color of the sky.
Bright, brillian blue …
| H 200° | L 49 | R 0 | C 100 | Hexa# |
| S 100% | a -328 | G 133 | M 25 | 0085c8 |
| B 78% | b –51 | B 200 | Y 0 | |
| K 0 |
… you still feel the sunshine … makes you want to go out. Read the rest of this entry
I don’t know how to call this color.
It is a kind of medium blue.
We are leaving the field of pure, unmixed process colors.
Even if the process colors have been unmixed, we have learned that colors are always mixed in a certain way, depending which color model you are using.
We are leaving the field of being able name the color in a specific way.
Mixed colors are named in a very subjective way. Read the rest of this entry
The color of the bride.
Pure light and nothing else.
| H 0° | L 100 | R 255 | C 0 | Hexa# |
| S 0% | a 0 | G 255 | M 0 | ffffff |
| B 100% | b 0 | B 255 | Y 0 | |
| K 0 |
How to print it? Read the rest of this entry
Some might even ask, if black is a real color.
When I was in school, my art teacher used to say, that black is defined via white and vice versus.
I think we can only understand the magic of light, which is white through the magic of darkness, the magic of the absence of light. And this is black. Read the rest of this entry
