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HKS color guide (In French nuancier HKS) system jointly developed by the German manufacturers Hostmann-Steinberg (Huber group), K+E (Flint Group) and Schmincke Künstlerfarben for selecting special colors, which are provided by the manufacturers/trading partners as required as pure mixtures or can be mixed by the printers themselves from 9 basic colors + black and white. The color guides contain 88 basic colors, in the “3000+” version 3520 intuitive grades (88 × 40 shades), each with information on trueness, mixing recipe and best possible CMYK approximation as well as examples of color and contrast effects; substrates: “K” (art printing) (ink film thickness 1.5 g/m²) and “N” (natural) (2 g/m²) as well as “Z” (newspaper), “En” (endless natural) and “Ek” (endless matt coated) with 1.2 to 1.4 g/m²; digital products: HKS color library is used as standard in Techkon spectrodensitometers, plug-ins for Adobe CS and QuarkXPress, 97 web colors (hexadecimal).