CMYK Color Wheel

The CMYK color system is the color system used for printing. The CMYK wheel is for the cyan, magenta, yellow color system. This is the color wheel used by artists in print media, magazines, etc. CMYK is the subtractive color model. It's called that because you have to subtract colors to get to white. That means the opposite is true -- the more colors you add, the closer you get to black. They work together with the main RYB colors which stand for red, yellow, and blue.

How do you use a CMYK color wheel?

A color wheel is a circle diagram that illustrates the relationships between different colors. Sir Isaac Newton developed the first color wheel in his 1704 book Opticks. Newton created an asymmetrical color wheel with seven colors—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The color wheel is a visual representation of the colors found in a prism, arranged in a circle, with the primary colors spaced evenly around.

Why people use color wheels:

• They help us choose colors that work well together in color schemes and color palettes for design, patterns, painting, etc.
• It helps us understand relationships between colors
• It helps us understand how colors mix together to create new colors
  

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