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turning four dots of ink into every sunset, ad, and comic book you've ever trusted.
means a printing process that reproduces full-color images by layering tiny dots of a few inks, usually cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
from chromolithography pioneered full color in the 1830s with dozens of hand-cut stone layers, but the real leap came in 1906 when the CMYK halftone system let four inks fake millions of colors through overlapping dot patterns.
four inksCMYK fakes millions of colors with just four.
dot tricktiny dots trick your eye into blending colors.
black ink roleK stands for key, not black, technically.
moire problemmisaligned dot angles create ugly wavy patterns.
for instance
sunday funnies 1897 — first regularly printed color comic strip, the yellow kid.
national geographic — pioneered rich photo reproduction in color since 1910s.
andy warhol prints — exploited offset color misalignment as a 1960s art style.