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Colour is definitely a complex thing. My friend who is a graphic designer prefers to use Firefox over Chrome on MacOS because it renders “nicer” colours - being somewhat colourblind, I had never noticed, but indeed there is a subtle difference between how the same hex colour code renders in both, according to DigitalColorMeter…

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Maybe it's because I'm on Firefox that all these images look identical. I have no idea what the author is talking about.

EDIT: nevermind, I see it now. The square in the last few images is slightly green when CSS is scaling it.

I have close to zero knowledge about this, but I believe it may be because of different default color profiles?

On Linux, when I force Chrome to use sRGB (chrome://flags/#force-color-profile) it makes the colors identical to Firefox's. It doesn't seem to make a difference on MacOS though, the colors are always identical there

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