Thank you Davescm and D Fosse for your time and advice. Even as a non-designer, I realize that hex is very old as a discussion topic. I only use it when color picking in Fireworks and up until this point it has been a simple reference that I'm picking the same colors. I'm just a hobbyist with a blog, not a pro designer (obviously). Sorry, just to clarify, what I meant by `Where does the hex value get calculated?' (I have known my hex values for my logo and icon colors off by heart for ages.) I was trying to get my head around what decides the hex value when color picking. Bearing in mind that up until this point I never noticed a difference when referencing color between browsers, both visually and digitally (if I may use the term digitally for color picking with hex/RGB). I also can't remember noticing a difference in color visually and digitally between a local image (like a logo) in different apps until now. Group A) Explorer, FW, Edge and FF color pick the same value. Group B) PS, Ai, Chrome and Opera also color pick the same value - but a different value to Group A. FF0000 has always been FF0000 in all browsers for me when color picking an online or local color (visually and digitally) until now. So I was trying to understand what makes the decision.. or what has screwed up the usual decision maker. For arguments sake the color picker app, the monitor gamma settings, the GPU driver, the monitor driver, my mental health, Chrome or Opera standards, Windows settings, etc. Something appears to have changed. Anyway, I appreciate all of your great advice which I'll follow, and I enjoy trying to improve this, and I'll look into getting a better monitor in 2018. (I really like the Surface Studio, but it's out of my price range at the moment, and I'd only want the actual monitor anyway, although the Surface Studio hardware surely compliments the monitor nicely, better than my hardware seems to at the moment.) As a consolation, my U2410 are at least late revisions. I usually keep it (I mostly use just one) on Standard setting, although it does offer Adobe RGB and sRGB settings too. (All of which don't affect the digital picking of color anyway.) Thank you and have a Happy New Year.
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