Wife has been taking on a lot of clients with her graphic design work so I want to get her a decent monitor to extend from her Mac. Right now I gave her one of my Dell U2414H which is 1920x1080 60hz which is more than enough for my daily work.

Main applications she users:
Illustrator
Photoshop
PowerPoint

Would like to stay around (or under if possible) 600.

I'd go with the Asus Pro Art at that price point:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09D7JCT5Y/ref=asc_df_B09D7JCT5Y1700564400000?creative=395261&creativeASIN=B09D7JCT5Y&linkCode=asn&tag=zd-buy-button-20&ascsubtag=fa48e1c9a6c6456ab525262196d23787%7Ce4decfef-5eee-4cf9-941c-7f1b01a108f7%7Cdtp&th=1

Going to get 4K with the full color gamut of sRGB and Adobe and it's calibrated right out of the box. So very little set up.

32" which is good for most work from home setups.

Ideally you'd get the Apple Pro XDR which is 6k and great for graphics work (~$1000 but look for sales on Friday and Cyber Monday) but this one should do the trick. If I was doing graphics work I'd probably look for something a bit bigger in the 40 inch range but your price point will definitely go up.

Speaking as a designer a 40" display is kind of insane. And the Pro XDR starts at $6000, not 1000

I work with a MBP attached to a 27" Apple Studio Display but it's admittedly overpriced for what it is. LG and Dell both make great displays with Dell usually a better bang for the buck, should be able to find a nice 4k 27"'display in that range.

The 32 inch Asus Pro Art displays are great. 27 inch works too and is a little cheaper. I personally have dual 32 Pro Arts for my main setup.

I think anything bigger than about 32 inch for computer monitors is too big (for a single monitor). Applications like photoshop, lightroom, etc like to use 1-2 whole screens versus extend across one single bigger monitor.

One other thing I would potentially budget for is a color calibration tool. For color intensive (photos, illustrations, advertisements, etc) that will be printed or shared across various media, it's a great tool to have to ensure accurate reproduction.

Stymied said:

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The 32 inch Asus Pro Art displays are great. 27 inch works too and is a little cheaper. I personally have dual 32 Pro Arts for my main setup.

I think anything bigger than about 32 inch for computer monitors is too big (for a single monitor). Applications like photoshop, lightroom, etc like to use 1-2 whole screens versus extend across one single bigger monitor.

One other thing I would potentially budget for is a color calibration tool. For color intensive (photos, illustrations, advertisements, etc) that will be printed or shared across various media, it's a great tool to have to ensure accurate reproduction.

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Thanks all for the feedback. This space is not my wheel house. Any recommendation on calibration tool? She does a lot of work for print material.

I've used a few and they all generally get the job done. My current one is the Datacolor Spyder X2 Ultra. That may be more than you ware wanting to spend though.

For what you are describing, one of the entry level ones from Datacolor would probably work best.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1456247-REG/datacolor_sxp100_spyder_x_pro_colorimeter.html