Color management

How do I assign profiles to devices? — Look in Settings ▸ Color to add a color profile for your screen.
Why is color management important? — Color management is important for designers, photographers and artists.

Color profiles

How do I import color profiles? — Color profiles can be imported by opening them.
What is a color profile? — A color profile is a simple file that expresses a color space or device response.
What is a color space? — A color space is a defined range of colors.
Where do I get color profiles? — Color profiles are provided by vendors and can be generated yourself.

Calibration

Can I share my color profile? — Sharing color profiles is never a good idea as hardware changes over time.
How do I calibrate my camera? — Calibrating your camera is important to capture accurate colors.
How do I calibrate my printer? — Calibrating your printer is important to print accurate colors.
How do I calibrate my scanner? — Calibrating your scanner is important to capture accurate colors.
How do I calibrate my screen? — Calibrating your screen is important to display accurate colors.
What color measuring instruments are supported? — We support a large number of calibration devices.
What’s the difference between calibration and characterization? — Calibration and characterization are different things entirely.
Which target types are supported? — Calibration targets are needed to do scanner and camera profiling.
Why do I need to do calibration myself? — Calibrating is important if you care about the colors you display or print.

Problems

Can I get notified when my color profile is inaccurate? — You can be notified if your color profile is old and inaccurate.
How do I test if color management is working correctly? — Use the supplied test profiles to check that your profiles are being applied correctly to your screen.
Missing information for whole-screen color correction? — Whole-screen color correction modifies all the screen colors on all windows.
Why don’t the default monitor profiles have a calibration expiry? — Default monitor profiles do not have a calibration date.