Cyan - Definition and Overview

This article is about the color. For other uses see Cyan (disambiguation)

Cyan is a pure spectral color, but the same hue can also be generated by mixing equal amounts of green and blue light. As such, cyan is the complement of red: cyan pigments absorb red light. Cyan is sometimes called blue-green or turquoise and often goes undistinguished from light blue.

An example of a cyan color in the RGB color space has intensities [0, 255, 255] on a 0 to 255 scale.

Cyan is one of the common inks used in four-color printing, along with magenta, yellow, and black; this set of colors is referred to as CMYK.

Spectral reflectance curve

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Image:Cyan1.png

Color Coordinates

Hex triplet = #00FFFF
RGB    (r, g, b)    =  (0, 255, 255)
CMYK   (c, m, y, k) =  (255, 0, 0, 0)
HSV    (h, s, v)    =  (180, 100, 100)

See also

• List of colors