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Struggling with colors...

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Jan 19, 2020 Jan 19, 2020

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Hi everyone!

I am about designing a pattern, and i have chosen my colors via Adobe Colors, i made my theme for it and saved and jumped back to Illustrator where i used the theme right away, but i did not get the same colors as i have chosen. 
I insert some screenshots to make it clear : This is the color of my choice with the CMYK codeThis is the color of my choice with the CMYK codeexpand image
As you can see the CMYK code for this color supposed to be: 0,12,18,18.
However, when i create a new swatch / use the theme color, i get the following color, so i made a screenshot, placed the color-square and just used the eye-dropper tool, and got the following: 
This is the difference between the click-used theme color i got in illustrator...This is the difference between the click-used theme color i got in illustrator...expand imageOn the right side you can see my chosen color on website, screen-shot and eye-droppedOn the right side you can see my chosen color on website, screen-shot and eye-droppedexpand image

Could you give me any tip, how does it work for real? As you can see the two colors are completely not the same. 
The file is set as CMYK. 

Thanks in advance, waiting for solution!

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Community Expert , Jan 19, 2020 Jan 19, 2020

The web version of Adobe Color does not use Color Management and gives a CMYK version without knowing your CMYK Working Space profile.

Try to enter the RGB values in you Illustrator CMYK document or use Window menu > Color Themes to create your colors.

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Moving to the Illustrator forum from Get Started

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The web version of Adobe Color does not use Color Management and gives a CMYK version without knowing your CMYK Working Space profile.

Try to enter the RGB values in you Illustrator CMYK document or use Window menu > Color Themes to create your colors.

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On top of what Ton already said about Adobe Color.

When you make a screenshot, your browser might or might not add color management settings into this.

Then you place the screenshot in Illustrator while destroying or changing the color management (we can't know your settings)

Then you pick the color with the eyedropper from the screenshot where again the eyedropper picks from the screen representation of the image (after color management has been applied).

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