Not even gonna lie, that title made me laugh. But seriously, who is this gonna help? The casual user has no user for a monitor that is used by the printing industry, the printing industry as no use for a monitor that only uses half of the colors it needs. Seems like they are just doing this for shits and giggles.
What can you possibly mean, "only uses half of the colors [the printing industry] needs"?
Have you not read _any_ of the helpful comments above? (The ones that nobody seems to read or +rank...)
K is black -- on an emissive display, you just turn all colors off -- then you got black.
M is on the line of purples -- with pure, deep red and violet primaries, you could get a pure magenta (or anything else on the line) by mixing only. Using typical red and blue primaries, you can get as close to pure magenta as you can to the extreme spectral colors, subject to the usual brightness/gamut tradeoff. You'll certainly cover typical printing primaries.
C and Y lie on seriously convex regions of the spectral curve, so adding them with similar saturations to the other primaries will substantially increase gamut, so they're actually useful.
(Oh, and the printing industry doesn't just use CMYK; expanding gamut helps with representing spot color -- in fact, I'm pretty sure high-end RGB monitors can already represent the normal CMYK gamut.)
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Not even gonna lie, that title made me laugh. But seriously, who is this gonna help? The casual user has no user for a monitor that is used by the printing industry, the printing industry as no use for a monitor that only uses half of the colors it needs. Seems like they are just doing this for shits and giggles.
What can you possibly mean, "only uses half of the colors [the printing industry] needs"?
Have you not read _any_ of the helpful comments above? (The ones that nobody seems to read or +rank...)
K is black -- on an emissive display, you just turn all colors off -- then you got black.
M is on the line of purples -- with pure, deep red and violet primaries, you could get a pure magenta (or anything else on the line) by mixing only. Using typical red and blue primaries, you can get as close to pure magenta as you can to the extreme spectral colors, subject to the usual brightness/gamut tradeoff. You'll certainly cover typical printing primaries.
C and Y lie on seriously convex regions of the spectral curve, so adding them with similar saturations to the other primaries will substantially increase gamut, so they're actually useful.
(Oh, and the printing industry doesn't just use CMYK; expanding gamut helps with representing spot color -- in fact, I'm pretty sure high-end RGB monitors can already represent the normal CMYK gamut.)
Recommended reading if the above didn't make sense:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromaticity_diagram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut