Hi Everyone!

I reinstalled Inkscape earlier and I was surprised to see that there is a CMYK option where the colors are. Why are people saying there is no CMYK? Please accept my apology if I insulted anyone but I am very curious about this. I did a search here and didn't see any definite answers.

Thanks!

Hi.

Inkscape is based on the svg specs as much as possible, which doesn't support cmyk colour mode.
Generally cmyk means a smaller range of colours, so choosing/displaying them is not much of a challenge.
But that doesn't mean the colours are stored by cmyk values, they are still in rgb.
I'm not entirelly sure about the new features though.

I don't clearly understand this either. I understand (have read that) true CMYK is a "print color model" which Inkscape does not provide natively. It usually only becomes an issue when someone is planning to have their Inkscape drawing professionally printed. There is an extension the provides some basic but limited abilities. All that, I'm good with. The part I don't understand is exactly what the CMYK tab in the Fill/Stroke dialog does. Is it just another way to approach color (through cyan, magenta, yellow color channels, and whatever K stands for) (kryptonite?) except that it won't be good enough for printing?

There are some other discussions about this, in this forum. But they might be attached to topics whose titles don't reflect the entire discussion (so would be harder to search out).