Hex Colours & Web Page Colours Appear Different

[Ali1]

Hi Guys

I have a question about Hex colour codes and why these are different when you try and replicate the same colour form a web page in Affinity Designer.

If I take a Hex colour code from a web page with the value of #C3A46E,  and use the same Hex code in Affinity (i.e. when drawing a shape), then the shade of the colour appears to come out darker in Affinity (see screenshot attached). I have also tried to use RGB codes instead, but appears to make no difference. When exporting I get the same result as seen on the screen (i.e. a darker show).

The question is why do Hex colour codes come out a darker shade in Designer? 

Please can you let me know if I am doing something wrong or should be doing something differently? Perhaps it's a setting relating to the colour pallet.

Thanks, Ali

[Ali1]

Thanks for the response. To setup the sRGB, I am assuming that this setup in the colour profile when you create a new document? The option I selected was 'sRGB ITC61966-2.1' (see screenshot). I've just tried this and it appears to have resolved the issue.

Also - please can you confirm what colour format I should be using? Should this be RGB/8 or RGB/16?

Thanks

[Old Bruce]

If I am going to be needing 8 bit RGB files I will do the design work in 16 bit RGB simply to avoid problems (most obvious is banding in gradients) with blending different layers. Then I export the final image to an 8 bit format. My preference is to work in 16 bits regardless of the final bit depth. 

[Old Bruce]

All I can say is that my experience is that if I use many layers, more than just 2, with different blend modes and opacities I get different results exporting from an 8 bit file to an 8 bit format and a 16 bit file to an 8 bit format.