Copy and Pasting Color Changes in Illustrator

[Madison284039539wpq]

Hello,

I am seeing an issue in Illustrator where I have created a graphic in one document and upon copying and pasting into a new document, the color becomes dull. I can confirm that both documents are using the same color settings and modes and I am not using Pantones. Screenshots attached, the bright one is the original and the duller one is how it the graphic appears after pasting into a new document. Is this an issue with clipping masks? Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

What is your Document Color Profile? 

You can check it in Edit > Assign Profile or at the bottom of your window.

[Madison284039539wpq]

THANK YOU!! Both color modes were set to RGB but for some reason opening a new document had the color profile set to display instead of working RGB. You're a lifesaver 🙂

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear that helped. Opening an image or drag and drop images can change the document color profile to the one of the image.

[barbara_a]

Make sure that both files are RGB.

It is possible that one file is RGB and the other one is CMYK. 

CMYK typically has less saturated colors.