🎨 Colors - Color Systems
Updated at 2014-09-23 18:35
There are many systems to define a specific color.
- CMYK:
- Start from white and mix up cyan, magenta and yellow to get black.
- Used with physical products and printing.
- RGB:
- Start from black and mix up red, green and blue to get white.
- Used with digital products and computers.
- HSL:
- You specify hue, saturation and lightness.
- Hue is the color, saturation is the amount of the color and lightness is the amount of light in the color. Measured in degrees between 0 and 360.
- This is close to how human sight processes colors.
- Used with color schemes and palettes.