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Just realized my color palettes were all wrong because of my monitor
I spent 6 months designing branding kits in Brooklyn and kept getting complaints that my colors looked muddy on clients' screens. Turns out my monitor was set to sRGB instead of DCI-P3 the whole time. A friend at a print shop showed me how to calibrate it with a cheap tool I had never bothered to use. Now my greens and blues actually match what I see on my phone and my prints. Has anyone else dealt with monitor mismatch causing client revisions?
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phoenix8451mo ago
Haha oh man, this hit way too close to home. Had the exact same problem last year with my portfolio site - been fighting with clients about blues looking purple for months until I literally found a dusty calibrator in my drawer. Felt like such a rookie mistake. How long did it take you to figure out the difference?
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henderson.hugo1mo ago
Wait, did I read that right? You actually had a calibrator just sitting in a drawer for months without knowing it was there? That's a whole different level of frustration, I'd be kicking myself. It took me three weeks of going back and forth with a client over their logo looking more purple than blue on screen before I finally broke down and bought a new calibrator. I ended up having to redo half the site's color scheme because the whole thing was shifted way off. Yours being a dust finder feels like a cruel joke from the universe. I bet the second you plugged that thing in and saw the difference, you wanted to throw it at the wall.
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