Designer - Color Picker / Eye Dropper Wrong Colors

[adequate]

In affinity designer, when I try to sample a color, it will incorrectly copy the color. There are no gradients or noise or any weird fill on these objects. These are solidly colored items in a vector program, so I cannot figure out what the color picker would generate wrong colors. The images attached show when selecting the objects and then after color picking it. Happens on all objects, colors, outlines, fills. I know that a swatch can get around this for commonly used colors, but confused why this normal part of my workflow has changed drastically. 
 

[Hangman]

Hi @adequate and welcome to the forums,

The reason you are seeing a different colour when using the colour picker is because the Colour Format for your document is CMYK with a Colour Profile of U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 but you are selecting an RGB Hex colour value so the colour is being translated between two different colour formats.

If you change your document to RGB/8 using sRGB IEC61966-2.1, make sure your source object is still using #00BCB0 and then use the colour picker to sample the colour you will see it matches.

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[Hangman]

6 minutes ago, lacerto said:

You can use the Style Picker Tool (instead of the Color Picker Tool or Color Picker of the Color panel), to pick (copy) the original (untranslated) color definition of another object to be applied to selected object(s), but that would copy all attributes of the source object (and attributes of both fill and stroke), so not restricting just to color.

Though you can deselect stroke and other attributes of the source object in the context toolbar leaving just fill as the selected option to copy...

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[adequate]

On 4/16/2023 at 1:58 AM, Hangman said:

Hi @adequate and welcome to the forums,

The reason you are seeing a different colour when using the colour picker is because the Colour Format for your document is CMYK with a Colour Profile of U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 but you are selecting an RGB Hex colour value so the colour is being translated between two different colour formats.

If you change your document to RGB/8 using sRGB IEC61966-2.1, make sure your source object is still using #00BCB0 and then use the colour picker to sample the colour you will see it matches.

I need the document in CYMK for printing purposes, so glad to know this is really was just effecting HSB and RGB/Hex. Since those are what shows up on the UI, I didn't even notice CYMK was remaining the same the whole time. Thank you I thought I was going crazy!

[adequate]

On 4/16/2023 at 4:11 AM, lacerto said:

Great, I had totally missed this feature!

Thank you both for this additional tool tip. Haven't used it before but sounds like what Im looking for, or at least a good replacement for what illustrator offers!