css colors are different

Question

I have noticed, that on different computers same css colors looks different, because on the monitor, or because of the color depth or because of the graphic card.

For example: the color #f5f5f5 on some computers looks like #ffffff, or it became another color.

Is it possible to fix that?

Answer 1

Short answer: You can't. Every different browser on every different screen on every OS has a slightly different color balance and you just have to live with it.

If you are trying to make colors match up with images, I suggest using gif for your images however, as PNG or JPEG both contain color management tables that try to compensate for the screen, and end up rendering colors differently from CSS.

Ironically, because GIF is too dumb to know about color balancing, it's much easier to match GIF colors up with hex colors specified in the CSS.

Answer 2

Actually you can't.

It fully depends on the monitor and the graphics card and the monitor's settings etc.

If you have a monitor at home, which is calibrated and do not want to add background colors by number but by image, you may have an improvement, but no guarantee for that