The colours in the Inkscape UI appear to be incorrect.It seems that Inkscape's UI is not being colour-managed correctly. I've attached some screenshots to demonstrate. I'm displaying the RGB/sRGB colour f39a3d in both a web browser and Inkscape. Inkscape renders the colour quite a bit more saturated than it should be. The raw sRGB values are being used as the display output values without colour management being applied.
In all of the screenshots, the system colour picker is pointing at the large orange square. See how in the browser, the raw RGB values are mapped to different display values. And the raw RGB values correspond to the same sRGB values. Whereas in Inkscape, the raw RGB values are the same as the display output values, and the raw RGB values in Inkscape are mapped to different sRGB equivalent values, in fact outside the sRGB garmut.
Changing any of the the colour management section of the Inkscape Preferences UI doesn't appear to have any effect on the Inkscape UI (e.g. toggling "Simulate output on screen" does nothing). And the actual ICC profile of my display is not listed in the Display profile drop down.
Is there something I can do to have Inkscape's UI colours account for my display profile? Thanks!
Originally I tried all of them in the Color management settings, without any apparent effect. However I didn't realise that I needed to also toggle that button in the bottom-right of the UI that you click in your gif. I just tried again, and if I use the profile named "Display" then it half works... I say half because with the colour managed mode toggled on, the Inkscape UI starts rendering alternate tiles with and without colour management. See the attached screenshot. The darker tiles seem to have the correct colours for my display — the colour meter app shows the same values that the web browser produced in my original screenshots. So it now seems like a rendering bug.
Beyond the Basics Inkscape UI colours incorrect on OSX
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The colours in the Inkscape UI appear to be incorrect.It seems that Inkscape's UI is not being colour-managed correctly. I've attached some screenshots to demonstrate. I'm displaying the RGB/sRGB colour f39a3d in both a web browser and Inkscape. Inkscape renders the colour quite a bit more saturated than it should be. The raw sRGB values are being used as the display output values without colour management being applied.
In all of the screenshots, the system colour picker is pointing at the large orange square. See how in the browser, the raw RGB values are mapped to different display values. And the raw RGB values correspond to the same sRGB values. Whereas in Inkscape, the raw RGB values are the same as the display output values, and the raw RGB values in Inkscape are mapped to different sRGB equivalent values, in fact outside the sRGB garmut.
Changing any of the the colour management section of the Inkscape Preferences UI doesn't appear to have any effect on the Inkscape UI (e.g. toggling "Simulate output on screen" does nothing). And the actual ICC profile of my display is not listed in the Display profile drop down.
Is there something I can do to have Inkscape's UI colours account for my display profile? Thanks!
Seems to be working here. Win 8.1, Inkscape 1.2.1 (9c6d41e410, 2022-07-14)
Seems to also work in Linux MInt 20.3, same Inkscape version.
Not seeing any bug reports for display profile MacOS
Thanks Tyler. I'm using Inkscape 1.2.1 (9c6d41e, 2022-07-14) too. In that case it seems like a MacOS issue. Shall I make a bug report?
What profile did you use?
Originally I tried all of them in the Color management settings, without any apparent effect. However I didn't realise that I needed to also toggle that button in the bottom-right of the UI that you click in your gif. I just tried again, and if I use the profile named "Display" then it half works... I say half because with the colour managed mode toggled on, the Inkscape UI starts rendering alternate tiles with and without colour management. See the attached screenshot. The darker tiles seem to have the correct colours for my display — the colour meter app shows the same values that the web browser produced in my original screenshots. So it now seems like a rendering bug.
Ja, that looks very strange.
Performance has been a MacOS issue, but there are new features like dithering and HighDpi that may be in play.
Some performance workarounds are mentioned here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/1577