SVG image with CMYK colours - is it possible?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3405689

  •  25-09-2019
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Question

Is it possible to specify that as SVG image should produce output in CMYK? If so, is it a big task? What if the image has its colours specified in RGB, is it difficult to convert them to CMYK?

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Solution

SVG supports ICC colors, using ICC color profiles, which would let you do what you need, but it's not yet supported by any browser :(

OTHER TIPS

SVG 2.0 adds support for unmanaged colors allowing you to specify a CMYK color with an sRGB fallback:

<circle fill="#CD853F device-cmyk(0.11, 0.48, 0.83, 0.00)"/>

You can also use icc-named-color() to specify a spot color which would be defined in a linked ICC color profile.

At this time, this is still a working draft spec, but some tools may support it such as Apache Batik's svgcolor12 branch.

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