Wrong color reproduction in AI file in Illustrator

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November 13, 2022
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No matter which color profile I set in Illustrator, #f14505 which is an orange color will be shown as grey-brown in this vector AI file.

Why is this?

How to

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Correct answer Doug A Roberts

If I click on the swatches first and THEN set #f14505, it works.

But if not, I get the grey color replacement.

So it's solved now, I just don't understand why.

Seems to be because it's initially defined in greyscale:

Change it to RGB first.

Mylenium

Legend

Your traced shape is probably simply a mess with overlapping anchor points, stray anchors, gaps in the paths and all sorts of other issues causing rendering errors. You have to dissolve the comps and groups and do a bit of cleaning up to fix these issues. The grey area is the typical "could not generate fill" issue because of the problems with your shapes.

Mylenium