Illustrator colour values change when exported and viewed in Acrobat Output Preview

Question

The original cmyk I wanted to use was #19184A, but when exported as a pdf, it became #1B1849.

There is a difference in color; the picture in the upper one is a screenshot of a file open in Adobe Acrobat, and below is an Illustrator file.

Ton Frederiks · Answer

When you work in a CMYK document, only use CMYK colors. All others (RGB, Hex) will be converted to the closest possible CMYK color (and that color will again be converted to RGB/Hex).

When saving as PDF turn off conversion to any CMYK and make sure that the Color Settings are the same in both applications.

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