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24.0.50; Hex colors are not rendered correctly on OS X (Cocoa)

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From: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>
To: 8402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8402: 24.0.50; Hex colors are not rendered correctly on OS X (Cocoa)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 17:33:35 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Steve Purcell <steve <at> sanityinc.com> writes:
>
>> If I set face colors using hex values, those colors are not displayed
>> correctly.
>>
>> For example, 'M-x set-face-background RET default RET #fdf6e3 RET'
>> results in a frame background color which, when sampled using Apple's
>> "Digital Color Meter" utility, has hex value #fff8e8.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
> at the time.)
>
> There was a patch suggested to alter ns_get_color, but I see that the
> function has changed greatly since this was reported ten years ago.
>
> Is this still an issue with recent Emacs versions?

When I try it with emacs 28 on macOS 11.6.5 I get the
background color 0xFCF6E5.  So it seems quite close.

-- 

Howard

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