Thanks, so we have established the colours are different. Not yet, which one (if either one) is wrong. There were some really good questions to you, we are all waiting to answers from the questions posed by ederico_platon.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Illustrator supports since Illustrator 7 Smooth Shading in gradients, blends and meshes

There is no fixed value in these objects, it depends on the capabilities of the output device which values it will end up with.

To give an example of the fractional values that can be generated.

I created a blend between 2 lines with 1000 steps in between and expanded the blend.

I picked a random color and added it to my swatches. Illustrator shows 21,18 % black.

This is rounded when the Illustrator file is opened in a text editor, it shows: 0.211788207292557

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Abdulmalik AlkhousAuthor

Inspiring

try transitioning from green to yellow, i'm not getting this issue in gradients blue to red, blue to green , red to green , blue to cyan , red to magenta or black to white all these are smooth, i'm begining to accuse "yellow".

maybe this is why "sharp co." added the yellow component to the pixel 🙂

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Legend

Vector graphics don't have a bit depth unless you rasterise them...

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Abdulmalik AlkhousAuthor

Inspiring

so valuble info, thank you so much.

so it would be another downside for vector graphics?

i was creating a gradient from RGB yellow to RGB green when i noticed that the middle point is the same as the green end, no color change in a whole half of a gradient!? disappointing.

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federico platon

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Please check or provide values you get at middle and end positions.

I understand you are talking about the 256 values (2exp8) we have in RGB color mode.

Thus a gradient using pretty close colors has a limited range or steps between both ends, despite we are talking about a palette that has 256x256x256=16 million of colors, and displays that only use a color depth of 8 bits on screen.

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