Inaccurate colour picker

[alfascorpii]

Hi folks,

I recently bought an iPad and I love using illustrator on it, love the pencil experience.

I'm no expert, so the difference with the desktop version isn't important to me, except one thing:

The colors on Ai on iPadjust look different and I think it's an iddue with the colour picker.

If for example I pick a violet (max values of magenta and cyan) the resulting colour is alway a unsaturated more reddish magenta, rather than the usual nice vibrant cool violet. I use CMYK style.

Once I get home I will upload screenshots but is this a known issue? Is there anything I could do to fix it?

Thanks a million!

[alfascorpii]

Apologies for the typos! So ashamed lol

[Monika Gause]

Is your image an RGB or a CMYK document?

Also: the iPad is not color managed and Illustrator isn't either. 100 m/100 c makes a very dark violet which I wouldn't exactly describe as "vibrant".

Maybe you can show a screenshot?

[alfascorpii]

Hi Monika, thanks for your answer. Apologies, my question wasn't super accurate because I didn't have my iPad with me.

Anyway here are the screenshots: the doc is CMYK and when I pick a colour you can see how on the top side of the picker the colour is the one I want, but on the CMYK slides it changes.

thanks again for the advices

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

CMYK document mode limits the gamut to wht can likely be printed and displays the colors according to that.

If you want to see bright colors, then use RGB, but expect it to look different in the printed result.

[alfascorpii]

I'm mindblown, thank you so much!!

[Monika Gause]

You're welcome!