Had the worst design day last Tuesday and it was all because of orange

I was working on a landing page for a local bakery and thought I'd go with a warm orange gradient for the hero section. Looked great on my monitor but when I pulled it up on my phone and my coworker's laptop it turned into this gross mustardy brownish mess. Spent like 3 hours tweaking hex codes and HSL values and it still looked different on every screen. Finally just scrapped the whole idea and went with a simple cream background with some muted coral accents. My design lead said "orange is the color of regret" and honestly she was right lmao. Has anyone else had a color that just refused to cooperate across different devices?

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joel28013d agoMost Upvoted

Did you try checking the color profile settings on your monitor before you scrapped it?

elizabeth_chen14d ago

omg that gradient thing is the worst, I literally had the same thing happen with a blue.

diana_bell7413d ago

Wait, the same thing? Like with a blue gradient that just completely disappeared on you? That's wild, I can't believe you had to deal with that too.