cyan ink

Blue-green printing fluid

Cyan ink is one of the four standard colors in CMYK printing, a blue-green pigment that combines with magenta, yellow, and black to produce full-color images.

Home and office printers use cyan ink cartridges: The printer is low on cyan ink.

The color sits between blue and green on the spectrum.

turquoiseBlue-green opaque gemstone
tealShade between aqua, cyan
aquaBlue-green hue
printerMachine producing paper copies
cartridgeSealed container for supplies

CMYK · pigment · blue-green · color wheel · magenta · yellow · printing · colorfast · inkjet · dye · vibrant · saturated · tropical · offset · press · halftone · bleed · registration

Opposites

CMYK color model position

cyan inkyellow ink

Citrus-toned printing fluid

black ink · red ink · warm colors

color wheel complementarity

cyan inkred ink

Symbol for financial loss

red · vermilion · crimson

ink presence/absence

cyan inkblank paper

Unused writing surface

unprinted · white space

Family

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Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G