Color Settings- Illustrator displaying is off

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March 17, 2021
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Earlier today my colors in Illustrator look fine. Now everything appears RGB but is on a CMYK workspace. The appearance doesn't change in either color mode. I tried color settings, but the options i tried made the appearance worse. Please help.

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Correct answer Napologetic

Ton Frederiks linked to the answer in another thread, i am just going to paste the instructions here for MacOS it fixed my issue with the color displaying.
Please follow the instructions below:

Quit Adobe Illustrator and all the other Adobe apps.
Holding down "option" cick "Go" in the finder menu and select Library. Then proceed to step 3 and 4.
Go to ~/Library/Caches/Adobe/Color >(move to trash the file in this folder)
Go to ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe/Color > (move to trash the file in this folder)
Open Adobe Illustrator and go to Edit>color Settings and change the color settings to required colors space.

Regards, Ashutosh

NapologeticCorrect answer

Participating Frequently

Ton Frederiks linked to the answer in another thread, i am just going to paste the instructions here for MacOS it fixed my issue with the color displaying.
Please follow the instructions below:

Quit Adobe Illustrator and all the other Adobe apps.
Holding down "option" cick "Go" in the finder menu and select Library. Then proceed to step 3 and 4.
Go to ~/Library/Caches/Adobe/Color >(move to trash the file in this folder)
Go to ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe/Color > (move to trash the file in this folder)
Open Adobe Illustrator and go to Edit>color Settings and change the color settings to required colors space.

Regards, Ashutosh

savannahb5347693

Participant

Thank you so much.

Napologetic

Participating Frequently

I'm having the exact same issues... this is horrible.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

See Ashutosh answer here, downgrade Photoshop and set the AI color settings:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/emulate-adobe-illustrator-6-0-bug-in-version-25-2-1/m-p/11904177#M268132

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PaJaSt

Participant

Found a fix. Quit all apps, open Bridge and sync colour settings.

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PaJaSt

Participant

Comparison with InDesign. Both CMYK workspace.
Illustrators colours have gone crazy. Look at the oversaturated swatch and colour panels.
This needs fixing ASAP. Can't work with it like this!

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PaJaSt

Participant

Downgrading to 25.1 made no difference. What's causing this???

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Can you check your Color Settings? Does it show Emulate Illustrator 6?

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ErinWallisAuthor

Participant

Yes. If I switch it to custom, it looks the most correct but is still off. In Finder the Preview colors are fine-it's just when it's open in Illustrator.