Why do colors look oversaturated in Chrome on a wide-gamut monitor?
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I’m using a wide-gamut Eizo monitor calibrated with a Spyder4Pro. Lightroom and Photoshop look correct, but in Chrome 43 all images and color elements appear heavily oversaturated, no matter whether the files are exported as sRGB, Adobe RGB, or ProPhoto RGB. Firefox behaves more as expected in browser color-management tests.
It seems like Chrome may be reading embedded ICC profiles but displaying them as if the monitor were standard sRGB. Is this a browser color-management limitation, a monitor/profile setup problem, or both? Is there anything I can do to make browser colors display correctly on a wide-gamut screen?
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Photography Stack Exchange contributor
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There seems to be a good analysis of the issue here: http://www.color-management-guide.com/web-browser-color-management.html
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This is most likely a browser color-management limitation, not a bad monitor calibration.
On a wide-gamut display, unmanaged or partially managed color will look oversaturated because the browser is effectively treating the monitor like an sRGB screen. Based on the test results you describe, Chrome 43 was not fully handling monitor profiling/CSS color rendering the way a fully color-managed workflow does, while Firefox was behaving better.
A key detail is ICC support: browser behavior can differ depending on whether profiles are ICC v2 or v4. The referenced browser color-management tests are useful for checking exactly what your browser supports. One cited result is that on Mac, Safari supported both v2 and v4 and also handled CSS colors correctly, while other browsers had limitations.
So:
- Your Lightroom/Photoshop results suggest your calibration is probably fine.
- The oversaturation in Chrome points to incomplete browser color management.
- Try a browser with better color-management support, and verify whether your display/profile uses ICC v2 or v4 if compatibility is a concern.
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