What Is the Difference Between the Two Color Sets?
This week we discuss colors or color spaces. They are essential for the creation of print data. The question of the week is: “What exactly is the difference between RGB and CMYK?
Let us first take a look at the RGB color space: This additive color space consists of the three primary colors red, green and blue. The human eye perceives colors by mixing these three primary colors. This is why RGB colors are colloquially referred to as screen colors. They are mainly used for displaying color images on monitors or television sets.
In contrast, the CMYK color model is called a subtractive color model. This model consists of the color components cyan, magenta and yellow, supplemented by the black component Key. Since the three basic colors C-M-Y cannot represent deep black, the color model was supplemented by the printing color black (key). All colors can thus be represented by mixing the different color components. The CMYK model forms the basis for modern four-color printing.
Colors that are created in RGB cannot be printed. They are automatically converted into CMYK before the printing process. It can happen that the color result is distorted. To avoid this, we ask you to create your artwork or colors for printing in CMYK.
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