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

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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.

1 Color Coordinates

Hex triplet = #00FFFF RGB (r, g, b) = (0, 255, 255) CMYK (c, m, y, k) = (255, 0, 0, 0) HSVThe hue saturation value (HSV model defines a color space in terms of three constituent components: Hue, the color type (such as red, blue, or yellow): Ranges from 0-360 (but normalized to 0-100% in some applications) Saturation, the "vibrancy" of the col (h, s, v) = (180, 100, 100)

2 See also


Electromagnetic Spectrum Radio waves | Microwave | Infrared | Optical spectrum | Ultraviolet | X-ray | Gamma ray

Visible: Red | Orange | Yellow | Green | Cyan | Blue | Violet

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