Colour - OSX and Windows

mr.sly · 26 Jul 2009 at 22:34

Hi.

Just been helping a friend with a website and went to check what it looked like in XP with Bootcamp. And was surprised to see how big the colour difference is between OSX and Windows. I always knew there was a colour difference but didn't realise it was so big.

With the background set at #bbbbbb in OSX it looks grey whereas in Windows is has a strong blue tint.

How do you guys go about getting around that difference? Or do you just design a site to look good in Windows (or OSX) and accept it's not going to look the same in the other OS?

Tripnologist · 26 Jul 2009 at 23:56

mr.sly said:
... accept it's not going to look the same in the other OS?

Bingo. There is no way to get online media to appear identical for everyone. If it's not the OS, it's the monitor.

mr.sly · 27 Jul 2009 at 00:21

Wouldn't be so bad if it was a small change. But it's almost changed to a different colour in this instance.

NathanT · 27 Jul 2009 at 00:36

As Tripnologist states, its just something we got to live with.
The gamma in OS X has been a talking point for quite a long time.

Just cater for the masses which in this case will be the windows users.