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by bscphil 1717 days ago
Most screens are too blue. Not in a personal preference sense, in an objective sense. That's why monitor profiling and color correction are important. Similar to you, I find it grating to use most screens for a long period of time, but I think the better solution to that problem is just to profile your screens.
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For me it's ok to just set the color temperature to warm. But then I have to adjust all kinds of text highlighting color schemes which use pure blue for important text. These get too dim to read comfortably.
Our of curiosity, how would I do that? Or is this just something I should look up?
If you want to do it yourself, you'd get a colorimeter or spectrometer and then software that lets you use them to adjust your screen, like ArgyllCMS and DispcalGUI: https://displaycal.net/

There's a list of hardware supported by Displaycal here: https://displaycal.net/#instruments

The easiest way is to pay a professional. Hardware required to properly calibrate a display is too expensive to make any sense to buy it unless you don’t care about money.

You won’t get great results by downloading profiles from the internet because every unit is different coming out of factory.