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RAL Colour 9017
Traffic black
This RAL 9017 Colour is presented to you as a part of white and black hues assortment on the RAL Classic colour chart. You will notice that all of these grouped colours follow this specific designation, which is based on four-digit number in combination with the letters "RAL". This is why white and black colours are sequentialy coded under 9xxxx, where 9 is a system code number (1: yellow, 2: orange, 3: red, 4: purple, 5: blue, 6: green, 7: grey, 8: brown and 9: white and black shades).
The name Traffic black actually serves as additional, auxiliary designation, making the colour easier to remember. This naming system also provides additonal quality assurance preventing erroneous colour assigment due to number transposition.
On this particular hue range, in addition to 'traffic black', you will find hand-picked colour tones selected by RAL institute design experts. This white and black colour assortment holds another 13 excellent tones (making a total of 14 unique colour samples).
You can click here for a list of white and black hues, or open a full chart of 215 RAL Classic colours.
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◾ RAL 9017 to CMYK
In the CMYK colour system the RAL 9017 is composed by combining four primary tones of pigment. To achieve this exclusive "traffic black" colour tone, out of 100% maximum colour components, 50% cyan, 30% magenta, 50% yellow and 100% key (black) are used.
You can immediately see this result on this computer simulated CMYK diagram.
The mixture of these primary colours blends in the middle on a square space where all four different colour hue sheets overlap.
◾ RAL 9017 to RGB
The conversion of RAL 9017 into RGB colour space requres specific composition of red, green, and blue primary colours.
To construct hue matching "traffic black" colour from the RAL chart as close as possible, we use the following values ranging from 0 to 255 on the RGB colour system: 42 red, 41 green and 42 blue.
The three circle RGB diagram here provides illustrative example showing how these relatively low values comes together and constructs such dark, yet unique shade of colour.
The RAL colour equivalent emerges in the very center, where all three primary colour circles overlap and combine.
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