HKS (colour system)

HKS colour fan.

The HKS is a colour system which contains 120 spot colours and 3520 tones for coated and uncoated paper. HKS is an abbreviation of three German colour manufacturers: Hostmann-Steinberg Druckfarben, Kast + Ehinger Druckfarben, and H. Schmincke & Co.

HKS colours, similar to Pantone colours, can be used in any kind of print publication to produce predictable colours. As in the Pantone colour system, there are HKS colours that cannot be reproduced using the CMYK colour space, like bright orange or certain tones of blue.

The HKS colour system is based on the euroscale colourspace. It follows the guidelines of ISO 12647:2 2002 and the FOGRA Standards (such as Fogra27L).^[1] This means HKS colours are available on all PaperTypes of the 12647. This makes it easier to print the colours in offset and common digital printing technologies.

References

↑ FOGRA

External links

Color space

List of color spaces Color models

CIE	CIEXYZ CIELAB CIECAM02 CIELUV Yuv CIEUVW CIE RGB

RGB	Color space sRGB RG chromaticity Adobe Wide Gamut ProPhoto scRGB DCI-P3 Rec. 709 Rec. 2020

YUV	YUV (PAL) YDbDr (SECAM) YIQ (NTSC) YCbCr (Rec. 601 Rec. 709 Rec. 2020) YPbPr xvYCC YCgCo

Other	CcMmYK CMYK Coloroid LMS Hexachrome HSL, HSV HCL Imaginary color OSA-UCS PCCS RG RYB

Color systems and standards	ANPA Colour Index International (CI list of dyes) DIC Federal Standard 595 HKS ISCC–NBS Munsell NCS Ostwald Pantone RAL (list)

For the vision capacities of organisms or machines, see Color vision.

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