Why the web can look wonky on a Mac
Category: macs
I read a great article this morning explaining an issue with the way colours can display on Macs while surfing the web. Heres the example from the article.
The image on the right is infact closer to: #EC9546;
If you are on a Mac with Safari take a look for yourself.
Apparently the issue all stems from the fact that Macs use a gamma setting of 1.8 where as PCs use 2.2.
However the Mac doesn’t simply brighten up everything, or there wouldn’t be a problem. One could simply counter this with the monitor or system gamma settings.
The problem is that OSX will infact render different parts of a web page with different gamma settings.
HTML, CSS and other rendered graphics will follow one gamma setting, while images and in particular photos with embedded colour profiles, will render differently.
