Coloration Error

[Hugh5FEC]

Hey, so I just got this new bug and it's just annoying enough to report. This doesn't happen with any other color but when I try to get any color around aquamarine or mint or whatever (#77ffba) it automatically corrects to this one snottier version that's notably darker. However when I try oranges, yellows, reds, ect. the correction doesn't occur! And all I want is that stupid mint color lol, what's happening? Has this happened to anyone before? And is this a issue in my settings?

[Hugh5FEC]

All cool kinds of colors have this issue!

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

It sounds like you're in CMYK, and the color is out of gamut in your CMYK profile.

There's nothing you can do about that if the CMYK profile is the correct one for the intended output. A CMYK profile represents actual physical inks on actual physical paper, and there's a gamut limit.

[Hugh5FEC]

Ok dope, thank you for the quick and helpful response! Still have a lot to learn but this is another great step. I appreciate it!

[J E L]

Can you show us a screenshot of what you want vs. what you get?

[Hugh5FEC]

  This is the before and after of me placing my bucket, hope that helps

[D Fosse]

Yes, this is far out of CMYK gamut (in whatever CMYK profile you're using). The clue is that M % goes to zero, the less magenta the more green. But it can't go any further. On the other hand you can't just add cyan and yellow either, then it would be too dark.

The muted color is the best you get from a cyan+yellow ink mix.

Are you sure you want to be in CMYK? CMYK is strictly for commercial offset print. Desktop inkjet printers require RGB data, and usually have more than 4 inks and a wider color gamut. The conversion to actual inks happens inside the printer driver.