Color Picker Provides wrong color?

[dlgombert]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.89.0

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

ColorPicker

Steps to reproduce

Honestly this could be a bug with Chrome, but the value returned is just not correct.

I'm attaching a dump from powertoys that comes from reporting a bug as well as a screen capture of a demonstration of the event taking place.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/77e7b960-c415-433c-a01f-f8c5c7ebca78

PowerToysReport_2025-03-28-12-01-35.zip

✔️ Expected Behavior

The color given to match the explicitly defined value in browser css

❌ Actual Behavior

The color did not match

Other Software

No response

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• #29260 , similarity score: 83%
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[shuaiyuanxx]

Could you try this link and check again? I didn't encounter any problems.

[ackvf]

I used the link and it gave me wrong color.

[shuaiyuanxx]

@ackvf I checked again on a different machine and monitor—the results look correct. Then I used a local color picker to sample the color from my remote machine, and the color appeared different and incorrect. Are you, by any chance, picking the color from another device? Otherwise, the result should be accurate.

[shuaiyuanxx]

close this issue since no more response for 3 days, feel free to reopen it if necessary.

[ackvf]

@shuaiyuanxx What do you mean by "picking color from another device"? I can hop on a call with you if it would help you and share my screen. I do have multiple monitors, yes. Interestingly all of them report different and wrong color 😄

top, DELL P2415Q 4K 16:9 LCD, RGB 8bit SDR, 100% scaling, color profile "DELL P2415Q Color Profile,D6500"

left, integrated, Dell XPS 13 9310 4K 16:10 LCD, RGB 10bit SDR (HDR capable, but off), 150% scaling, color profile "14F8"

right, Lenovo Yoga Tab 13 FHD+ 16:10 LTPS LCD, RGB 8bit SDR, 100% scaling

Once more, in one go, and I connected a third display. (one is larger due to scaling)

The greens in the screenshots DO look differently, even on the one screenshot below. How strange! 🤯 what is going on.

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https://superuser.com/questions/1904930/why-is-the-same-color-different-on-each-display

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