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I have managed to fix the problem. I have used color calibration tool provided by the monitor manufacturer (LG). Now there are no discrepancies anymore between Affinity and other software. Additionally, it turned out that Affinity had the more accurate color represantation all along than the other software and windows applications. I assume that this was not an Affinity bug but might be an issue with Windows and LG monitors and non LG calibration tools. Thank you for your support.

I have now removed all profiles from the color manager and recalibrated the monitor with DisplayCAL. After restart, the profile was correctly loaded but the problem still persists.

I have just realized when I deactivate the ICC profile and open Affinity and activate the ICC profile after Affinity is started Affinity shows exactly the same colors like any other software. Maybe this helps to track down the problem?

Thank you for your patience. I have spent the evening trying to read the displayed colors with x-rite but I didn't find a way to do it (sorry). I even tried DisplayCAL as an alternative and during this process I have created another ICC profile with exactly the same result.

I've attached screenshots of my settings. I was not able to follow your instructions with displaying the calibration pattern in Affinity. Do you have a link to a more detailed instruction on how I would do this? Thank you!

Thank you. I think this might be the issue. It seems that the ICC profile is applied twice: 1. in the OS (slight desaturation) and 2. Again in Affinity which leads to an even more desaturated image. So it might be, that affinity uses the "correct" colors and the other apps are "wrong"?

Yes the ICC profiles work well, aside from Affinity Photo.

I am using x-rite i1display plus to calibrate my monitor. Today I've realized that the color in Affinity Photo is desaturated when I use color profiles that were created with this tool (see attached picture). Αll other programmes show the same colors aside from Affinity Photo. Whenever I deactivate the ICC profiles in the Windows Color Management Profiles Affinity Photo shows the same colors like any other software. The problem also disappears whenever I switch to another color profile that was not created with the x-rite calibration tool. However, since the only software that has issues is Affinity Photo, I would assume that the issue lies here. I would highly appreciate any ideas to fix this issue.