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Four percentages naming a colour in printing inks.
Also known as: Process colour values, Four-colour notation
CMYK gives a printed colour as percentages of cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink. Black is included as a fourth ink because mixing the other three gives a muddy brown rather than a true black, and because printing three inks where one would do is expensive.
Specifies a printed colour as percentages of four process inks: cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
Contexts: Packaging
Includes black as a separate ink because the three coloured inks together produce a muddy dark brown rather than black, and because using one ink is cheaper than three.
Contexts: Packaging
Four numerals with percent signs, separated by slashes or commas, printed on a specification.