![]() ![]() This chart is then used by the person who does the actual color separation. As actually used, this would be on a hand colored xerox copy of the black and white artwork completed by the artist or their colorist. Orange is YR3, Red is YR and blue is R2B4. How do you use this thing? On page one with the large four color image of Cap’n Quick & The Foozle there are several hand-lettered notes in the style YR3B4 and so forth with a line drawn to that area of color. We get a page for each color plate, each of which has all 124 colors (plus a square for white or no color), each one presented in the order of the amount of each color, giving a different color palette for each. ![]() So… instead of Magenta or Cyan in the guide we have Red and Blue. Yellow goes on first, Black goes on last. There is some debate on what the K actually stands for.) For printing on newsprint (and most other four color printing) the color order is generally Yellow, Cyan, Magenta, Black or Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, Black. Know as CMYK for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (The black is known as the registration or Key plate. Color comic books are printed with four colors of ink in a specific order. The big obvious one is the naming and arrangement of the colors and charts. There are a couple odd things about the presentation. It was likely also used as a promotional item. This was presumably printed primarily as a color guide for the artists and colorists that were doing work for Eclipse at the time. In the years before that there were half as many available colors. That’s quite a lot considering how many comics through the ages have used a very bright and even more limited palette. At the time this was done there were a mere 124 colors available. ![]()
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