Tips for calibrating color on the web

When is orange more like red? Web designers, even picky ones, sometimes ignore color shift across monitors.

How is a web designer to manage color when the screens of their users could be any size or color or could be viewed under any lighting conditions?

Unlike fixing HTML errors, which affect browsers as the page is loaded, getting accurate color is part of the designer’s work process.

Maintaining colors across projects is possible once the problems are understood. Read on for the challenges and solutions to getting consistent color on the web.

Read the full article I wrote
at Webdesigner Depot.

Above: Illustration of a work environment prepared for sensitive color work.