Lea Verou 3/23/2009

100% Cyan in CMYK is NOT rgb(0,255,255)!!

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This article details a developer's challenges while building a color picker that supports CMYK. It criticizes widespread, incorrect CMYK to RGB conversion algorithms that produce out-of-gamut colors, using the example of CMYK(100%,0,0,0) incorrectly becoming rgb(0,255,255). The author laments the difficulty of finding accurate conversion data.

100% Cyan in CMYK is NOT rgb(0,255,255)!!

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