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CMYK - the K is Klein, or black. Surely not key? Or has something changed?
by chris_wot 2y ago
CMYK - the K is Klein, or black. Surely not key? Or has something changed?
- RugnirViking 2y agoKlein? that means small. Schwartz is black
- chris_wot 2y agoI completely stand corrected.
- mqus 2y agomini-nitpick for everyone that might be confused: it's "schwarz" (without t), Schwartz is a name of a lot of people.
- mauricioc 2y agoValid point, but I will also amend your nitpick: Schwarz is also a name of a lot of people :) Both refer to hair colour, I think. "Schwartz" was a valid spelling for the colour many centuries ago (see, e.g., item 15 in [1]), which makes sense since both spellings are pronounced the same way. Surnames don't follow spelling changes, so that's the only situation in which both variants coexist now. In maths, you have the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and Schwartz's theory of distributions. [1] https://woerterbuchnetz.de/?sigle=DWB&lemid=S04549 https://woerterbuchnetz.de/?sigle=DWB&lemid=S04549
- cozzyd 2y agoIt's a pity there's no schwarz-schwartz like there is Lorenz-lorentz
- zuminator 2y agoSurely is key. The "key" plate in printing is the main plate with the most detail in the color separation, and it's typically black, hence key equals black.