Forum Colors on a Mac

[Zeste]

I didn't want to waste space in General for this. I just got a new Mac computer that I am using as my main now, and the colors here are alot different. I am trying to deternine if it's really how they are, or if my monitors color profiles are off.

I used to think the site was black on very dark black, so you could highlight and see spoilers and such.

Now, the color isn't dark black, but like a chocolate red/brown. Is this how it really should look?

I am gonna test some spoiler text here. black text.

[Zeste]

Yeah, I can plainly see the black text on the brownish background.

Anyways, im not complaining, just trying to see if it's just me. I know Macs can render color and hex a little different than a PC.

It's the same in Firefox and safari, too.

[Grave]

It's not like that on my Macbook Pro.
Not sure how to fix your problem, just letting you know it's probably not guaranteed to be a Mac issue. Maybe just your color settings.

[Divinefactor]

iam on a mac for the time being too and i see it just the same as on my pc rig... problem is more than likely on your end

[Vorph]

Sounds like your brightness is too high, but yes, the board is really dark red/brown and not black. The color number is #120800, and people have always been able to read color=black spoiler text on some CRTs. I've never seen a LCD that could though, so you probably need to do some calibration.

[Zeste]

the hex I am getting from a screenshot pasted into photoshop is #170700

go figure. It's not even a big deal, other than my brain is FORCING my eyes to think that the dark brown is black, so the site sorta jumps out at me like a optical illusion because my brain swears that that color is black.

macs, what can you do.

[Solariss]

A weird thing that happens to me is that I see the exact same thing on the same computer, only sometimes. Most of the time it's black, but sometimes when I load the site it has the dark brownish tint to it.

[Grave]

Originally Posted by Solariss

A weird thing that happens to me is that I see the exact same thing on the same computer, only sometimes. Most of the time it's black, but sometimes when I load the site it has the dark brownish tint to it.

Play EQ1 still by any chance?

One thing that annoyed the hell out of me back when I played was EQ would automatically up the brightness of my monitor when it was running, so when I viewed sites like FoH they were washed out. Could be something like that going on.

[Zeste]

Originally Posted by Grave

Play EQ1 still by any chance?

One thing that annoyed the hell out of me back when I played was EQ would automatically up the brightness of my monitor when it was running, so when I viewed sites like FoH they were washed out. Could be something like that going on.

I toned down my LCD's brightness a bit, and now it's better. It's probably a color profile deal with the Mac OS. Someday I'll properly calibrate the colors and such and I bet that will do it. But now, it's so close I can hardly tell.

[Millie]

Originally Posted by Zeste

I toned down my LCD's brightness a bit, and now it's better. It's probably a color profile deal with the Mac OS. Someday I'll properly calibrate the colors and such and I bet that will do it. But now, it's so close I can hardly tell.

I am no tech expert at all, but I can assure you it's not a Mac-only issue. It's a monitor setting or possibly video card issue. I use PCs, and some of them experience similar problems to the one you're experiencing. It's not as though you can read spoiler text plainly; you still have to kind of squint your eyes and get up close to read it. But you can read it, unhighlighted, if you're so inclined.

[Vorph]

Originally Posted by Zeste

the hex I am getting from a screenshot pasted into photoshop is #170700

Now that is weird. Is it #120800 if you use Colorzilla's (I assume you have that extension installed since you're a web developer, if not it's easy to get) eyedropper rather than taking a screenshot?

I tried viewing the page with my useragent switched to Firefox (OSX) and Safari, and other than some layout changes in Safari everything was exactly the same.

[Hachima]

It's probably the screen setup. I just looked at the page with 3 different LCD screens. With one I can clearly see the black text, on another one I have to try looking pretty hard to see the text and on the third one I can't see it at all. None of the screens are setup badly either. All have pretty good settings and nothing unusual.

[Zeste]

lol I calibrated my monitors with OSX's built in wizard and now it looks exactly like it did on the PC. Which is probably better since 98% of the people who view the sites I build are on PC's.

Shame on me for not taking monitor and color calibration seriously

[Big W Powah!]

Originally Posted by Zeste

lol I calibrated my monitors with OSX's built in wizard and now it looks exactly like it did on the PC. Which is probably better since 98% of the people who view the sites I build are on PC's.

Shame on me for not taking monitor and color calibration seriously

Coming from an IT major whose done contract work at places that do graphic design: Yes, shame on you.

Atleast you're smart enough not to bitch that the IT guy cause the printer prints a different shade of red than the monitor shows...Fuck graphic design guys.

[ruination]

Originally Posted by Grave

Play EQ1 still by any chance?

One thing that annoyed the hell out of me back when I played was EQ would automatically up the brightness of my monitor when it was running, so when I viewed sites like FoH they were washed out. Could be something like that going on.

Heh funny you mention that, mines like that.