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Hi Everyone! I just bought a Spyder5 and was having fun playing with DisplayCAL on a new Windows machine I built, using an old ASUS VH226 monitor. I do mainly web design, so web page rendering color is important to me.
I was able to balance monitor RGB levels according to instructions before the calibration – but after calibration I notice something’s still off.
When going to web pages with a light light gray/slightly blueish color background (say, like Facebook, which according to the CSS code uses a background color of #e9ebee) I noticed it looked yellowish.
Taking a screenshot of the page and opening in Photoshop made things even weirder – that supposed #e9ebee is, according to the color picker itself, a #f9f8e4 (slightly yellowish). My eyes were right to see yellow! And the display was right to present it as yellowish, apparently.
So the display seems to be correctly calibrated. The question is – why are the colors internally being changed? What could be turning the #e9ebee (that web designers intended to show) into #f9f8e4 on my Windows 10 ?
PS: this is not just happening inside web pages, since application frames like Chrome web browser are showing up with a strange yellow tint. This can’t be a display calibration issue either – a screenshot proves the actual color picker picks a yellowish gray tone on the window frame…
