# Color Calibration and Consitency

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/color-calibration-and-consitency/225458>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [May 12, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/color-calibration-and-consitency/225458 "2007-05-12T00:23:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/color-calibration-and-consitency/225458/1 "2007-05-12T00:23:43Z")

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On my laptop’s shiny screen, a certain element of my website looks blue. On my home’s normal LCD, that color looks purple. How do you deal with this inconsistency? Do you just design for the most common screen type? And what is the most common screen type, by the way?