Colours displaying dull inside Illustrator UI

Question

All my colours inside illustrator are appearing much much duller than the same file exported to Acrobat, loaded into After Effects or viewed in any other programme and I'm the only person in my workplace who is having this issue.

I've double triple checked all my colour settings and it is not a CMYK/RGB issue.

Has anyone experienced this before? Does anyone know how to fix it? Is it a bug in my illustrator?

See below for a comparison in Illustrator and in Acrobat:

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Please any help would be appreciated.

Anubhav M · Accepted Answer

Still no different! Might be worth noting that colours in After Effects/Photoshop/Acrobat all display colours the same. It's just illustrator that's the odd one out. Puzzling one! Appreciate your help 🙂

Hello @Lewis352545836ac8,

Are you using Illustrator on Windows? If so, would you mind trying the suggestions shared in this community post (https://adobe.ly/4posfb3) to see if they help?

If you're using macOS, please try recalibrating your monitor for sRGB (https://adobe.ly/48rxwJ1), restart your computer, and then relaunch Illustrator to see if this resolves the issue.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anubhav

Bobby Henderson · Answer

Are your color settings between Acrobat and Illustrator synchronized? Are they using the same RGB or CMYK color profile?

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