Color changing after saving Swatches as ASE

Question

I've created an ASE file with all of our corporate brand compliant colors. But when I save the ASE, Adobe changes the color mixes on its own. When I reopen the ASE in Illustrator, the colors have changed. For example, if I save a color swatch as CMYK 85, 46, 0, 0 Adobe changes it to CMYK 84.64, 45.8, 0. 0. I'm trying to make this ASE downloadable for all of our designers, but if it isn't accurate this is useless.

Ton Frederiks · Answer

You see accurate and rounded values. Colors from RGB values have values from 0-255. CMYK Colors have a range from 0-100%. Fitting values from 0-255 into 0-100 will give you fractional values. Illustrator (as well as Photoshop) will round them in some places (like the Color Picker) and show the fractional values in other places (like the Color Panel).

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