Changing character of a calibrated monitor

[steve_singleton3]

As I prepare to calibrate a new monitor, I wonder if it will be

relatively color correct for photos but less than optimum for working

with text, which I do more often. My concern may prove irrelevant,

but I do wonder: Is it possible to establish a proper color

calibration, then change settings to work best for text and switch

back and forth? Or is that asking for trouble in terms of

maintaining calibration? How do people handle optimizing monitor

characteristics for different tasks?

[kevin_bell1]

I'm hardly an expert on these things, but I do use a calibrated monitor at work, which is mostly text. I have liked the monitor better for all purposes after I calibrated it.

[kirk_thompson]

You can readily switch back & forth among monitor profiles. On a Mac, it's under System

Preferences>Displays>Color. You get a list of generic monitor profiles, the one from your

monitor manufacturer, and the ones you've made. Take your pick.

[steven_clark]

A well calibrated monitor should not make text any less readable and once you get used to it should probably improve things. Really the only task I have ever seen that profiled monitors aren't good at is 3d gaming which inevitably needs severe brightening.