3. Standard Colour Systems

In this chapter, I would like to give you some information on the most popular colour systems. You will also learn how colours can be identified.

The following subpages are available in this chapter:

 

The RGB System


The RGB system consists of the following three primary colours: Red, green and blue. Their initials, R, G and B, were used for the colour system's name. The RGB... 

The CMYK System


The CMYK system consists of the primary colours cyan, magenta and yellow. Again, the initials make up the name of the system. 

The CIE System


There was the problem that colours used to be determined by a reference system, and all colours corresponded to that reference model.