Return-Path: From: cbmvax!uunet!research.att.com!ark Message-Id: <9108262046.AA13410@relay2.UU.NET> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 91 16:40:03 EDT To: lojban-list@snark.thyrsus.com Subject: cyan and magenta Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Mon Aug 26 17:10:21 1991 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!research.att.com!ark It is pretty standard in color photography, and presumably in other graphic arts as well, to discuss color balance in terms of six `standard' colors: magenta, red, yellow, green, cyan, and blue. Color photography is not such an arcane art that one would really want to consider its nomenclature to be specialized technical jargon.