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The spectrum part of the color picker is showing random (?) colors in Illustrator. When I move the slider the color values do change, but this is not reflected in the spectrum display.
I've cleared my preferences and even reinstalled illustrator but the problem persists. Is anyone else seeing this? Any idea how to solve it. I've filed a bug report with Adobe.
I'm on OS X and just updated to 10.10 Yosemite but the problem was present in Mavericks as well.

This is also happening to me. I should note that the slider on the spectrum is functional and changes to the position on that bar are reflected, but it's a lot of guess and check to select colors. Interestingly, the bar on the right behaves differently when I'm selecting on HSB (Bar is always red):
vs RGB (bar will change colors, never the same color as the actual color)
In either case, neither are gradients.
Frustratingly, I just spent TWO EFFING HOURS chatting with support, during which we uninstalled it, reinstalled it, and tried it in another account, and it still isn't resolved.

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