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Palette color chosen with color.adobe.com displays differently in my test app

  • May 10, 2026
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I am developing an app for Android devices using the raylib library.  I have used the color.adobe.com website on my Windows notebook computer to generate a palette - a series of colors that “go together”.  However, when I display one of the colors in my app that is connected to my Red Hat Enterprise Linux notebook, it appears to my eyes more brownish.  I have a quite a bit of C/C++ development experience, but relatively little experience with digital color issues.  I’ve consulted my “A Field Guide to Digital Color” by Maureen Stone, which seems to have good information, but nothing that I’ve been able to apply to this specific issue.

Has anyone had a similar experience?  If so, is it just that my eye is seeing the same color differently?  Is it a Windows vs. RHEL display issue?  Something else?

Thank you for your time in reading this, and I am very grateful for any suggestions anyone has in what the issue is or if there is an issue at all, and how I might best proceed.

The hex code for the color is #9C7214, and the C/C++ code decimal equivalents are as follows, with the final value being the alpha, which I have tried making different numbers, but to no avail: 156, 114, 20, 225

    Correct answer D Fosse

    As far as I can tell Adobe Express is not color managed. Numbers are just expressed as hex, which is just base 16 notation of RGB numbers, which are undefined unless the color space is specified. A color space is described in an icc profile.

     

    Numbers are color space specific. A given set of numbers will produce different colors in different color spaces, and conversely, the same visual color will be represented by different numbers in different color spaces.

     


    If you need reference numbers, Lab is the only way to go. Lab is device independent, and is used as Profile Connection Space in icc profile conversion.
     

     

     

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    fruit.of.light.in.stl
    fruit.of.light.in.stlAuthor
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    May 11, 2026

    Thank you for your help, D Fosse!

    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    May 10, 2026

    As far as I can tell Adobe Express is not color managed. Numbers are just expressed as hex, which is just base 16 notation of RGB numbers, which are undefined unless the color space is specified. A color space is described in an icc profile.

     

    Numbers are color space specific. A given set of numbers will produce different colors in different color spaces, and conversely, the same visual color will be represented by different numbers in different color spaces.

     


    If you need reference numbers, Lab is the only way to go. Lab is device independent, and is used as Profile Connection Space in icc profile conversion.
     

     

     

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