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Can I Trust Affinity Designer's Colors?


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Hey guys. I'm very much a newb to graphic design and just downloaded the free trial of AD. So far I'm absolutely loving it. Definitely considering buying it. 

 

I'm having one major problem though. I previously worked in Pixelmator and had some color palettes that I had planned out for my website. Tried putting the hexcodes from Pixelmator into Affinity and they come out totally different. I experimented a lot with the color profiles, but it didn't help any. Currently have both Pixelmator and Affinity set to sRGB. For context, the colors I had in Pixelmator are darker and more muted. The same hexcodes in Affinity come out much brighter and more vibrant.

 

Anyone else run into these problems? If I just start over and design my color schemes from scratch in Affinity Designer, how do I know I can trust that the colors will translate well to web or other mediums? Would really appreciate help as I'm new to this. thank you. :)

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Hi iamCayleo,

Welcome to the forums :)

Could you please provide screenshots showing your Affinity Designer document, your Pixelmator document and the Hexcodes you're comparing between the apps?

Do you have a custom monitor (ICC) profile set in your OS? Affinity apps handle colour differently from other creative applications and a monitor colour profile is the usual cause for this.

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