Image looks different on my Monitor compared to my Phone.

Factual Questions
1

I edited an image and added transparent background text to create a shadow behind the text. It was a semi-transparent dark brownish color, and on my monitor I see this image just as I drew it. However on my phone, I cannot see the semi-transparent shadow text I added behind it. I could link the image here but don’t want to expose what it was for (it was a troll).

I remember hearing about color accuracy in certain monitors. I’m wondering if that’s what I’m experiencing? Because the background is black, and the transparent text doesn’t even show on my phone it looks like regular white text on a black background. However my monitor shows it clear as day as a darker brownish red color ontop of the black background. I’m guessing this is what it means for a screen to be limited in color? I never came across this issue or ever noticed it before. Any videos/explanations would be helpful as I’m not sure what to even look up.

2

What file format are you using?

3

Uh it’s a PNG hosted on imgur.
It seems like my Samsung galaxy screen doesn’t have the capability to show the transparent background color I added to the text. Very strange.

4

It is probably a function of the browser you are using (Chrome? imgur app?) and not the phone. Try a different browser, or download the file and open it with a graphics program. You could also maybe convert it to JPEG or another format that doesn’t do transparency, if this in fact turns it a neutral color and not black or something.

Color reproduction on LCD screens is a separate issue.

5

I use two monitors on my computer that are not identical or even from the same manufacturer. One is much higher quality than the other (though not as big). The colors on the smaller high-quality monitor are much better than the ones on the cheap but slightly larger monitor. That doesn’t matter a ton, but it does mean that if I move an image from one monitor to the other, or display the same image on both, it’s obvious that they are not being reproduced in the exact same way. I’ve played with the color and brightness settings extensively on the cheap large monitor but can’t get it to replicate colors the exact same way as the other one does.

6

I have two “identical” monitors - same make and model, and they are perceptibly different. Since I do photo processing, I bought a ColorMunki and used it to calibrate them. Now, I can move an image from one to the other and not see any change.