How to Get Color Accuracy from ColorHexa into Illustrator?

[davidhunternyc]

Hello,

I have been making a Moo Business Cards with Adobe Illustrator and I am using ColorHexa to copy and paste my RGB Colors. My color space in Illustrator is CMYK and Gracol 2006 which is the correct export settings for Moo. Here is one color I want to bring into Illustrator but when I plug in the numbers the color changes in Illustrator and is inaccurate:

#40e0b5 hex color

Here is what happens in Illustrator. It shows "Out of Gammut warning" and switches to a more blue color. How can I make the colors in ColorHexa accurate in Illustrator? Thank you.

[Monika Gause]

Out of Gamut means, the color cannot be reproduces in the target color space. So what you want is just not possible

[davidhunternyc]

Out of Gamut is not possible for what? Not possible for printing in CMYK? So if I exported the files with these values, Moo could not match the color? Also, when I plug in the color code #40e0b5 notice how the CMYK values in Illustrator don’t match the Colorhexa CMYK values.

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Colorhexa may be nice for web, but it isn't usefull for print.

Color hexa does not tell you which RGB it uses (sRGB hopefully) and does not tell you which CMYK settings it uses and does not tell you how their CMYK values are calculated.

If you want a color that can be printed, specify a CMYK color. (I would try 60/0/41/0 for your color, but tastes will differ).