Atom: Colour rendering issue on Atom 1.28.0 / Windows 10

[garyb]

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Description

Since updating to 1.28 the colours throughout Atom are no longer rendering correctly - it appears like the gamma has been altered or something, the contrast is lower and everything is slightly lighter.

Colours are not rendering correctly even in the dev tools. Here's two I screen-shotted from the "computed" panel:

Examining those colour squares in an image editor you can see that the colour reported as #cc6666 is actually #b36d68, and #1d1f21 is rendering as #232426.

Running with --disable-gpu does have some visible differences:

Note the render tile edges to the right. The darker area is showing the actual correct colour for the editor background.

Steps to Reproduce

n/a - Atom auto-updated, now it's permanently in this state

Expected behavior: Colours to appear as they are defined

Actual behavior: Colours do not render as per their definitions

Reproduces how often: 100%

Versions

Atom : 1.28.0
Electron: 2.0.3
Chrome : 61.0.3163.100
Node : 8.9.3

Additional Information

Windows 10
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, 398.11 drivers

Everything appears fine on my Mac, which is using the exact same editor and style configuration.

[rsese]

Thanks for the report!

I think you may be running into the color profile issue described in our 1.28 release blog post:

http://blog.atom.io/2018/06/21/atom-1-28.html#support-for-custom-color-profiles

Try updating Settings > Color Profile to Use sRGB color profile and let us know if that restores the color rendering you saw previously.

[garyb]

Ok, well I feel pretty stupid now :smile: I did look around for a colour profile setting but not closely enough apparently. That does indeed fix it, thanks!

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