Retain card color according to smmx original color

[Loudbea7]

Just as the title says.

Cards colors are currently all gray no matter what color they had originally.

Original smmx:

What I'm getting:

What I want:

I used the default Simplemind and Obsidian colors (except the pink and light blue which aren't default in Obsidian)
I think I've almost always used the default colors because of the ease of access to them, so may be the best option for me is to convert them to the default colors in Obsidian for further easy usage.
The default blue could be used as the default gray in Obsidian, so that way the light blue would also be available in replace for the blue in Obsidian

So the defaults would be something like this:

Simplemind    Obsidian
Blue          Gray
Red           Red
Orange        Orange
Yellow        Yellow
Green         Green
Light blue    Blue
Purple        Purple
Pink

• a color for pink.

Default Simplemind colors:

Default Obsidian colors:

Here is a final example of how it would look also with the links colored:

[djsudduth]

Unfortunately, Simplemind files do not contain the actual color values - only the palette name and the color numbers. So the file doesn't have the data to determine what the color numbers mean (basically no RGB values). I guess I could add a manual palette setting in the settings file - that would be about it. The user would have to define their own color mapping.

[Loudbea7]

I see that only when you use a custom color the RGB values are saved into the smmx file.

I think I rarely, if ever, used a custom color, so for me, if I could transfer default color pallets to the default colors Obsidian uses it would be great. Just like the example I gave, + any pink for the pink one Obsidian doesn't have a default match.

Simplemind Obsidian
Blue Gray
Red Red
Orange Orange
Yellow Yellow
Green Green
Light blue Blue
Purple Purple
Pink

That would be the best for ease of use and to avoid having to do all custom colors because the default color RBG values aren't the same for Simplemind and Obsidian.

[djsudduth]

Interesting - but, I'm not sure what you're saying. There's no way to get the default palettes automatically - so, best case, I'd have a palettes.cfg file for someone to modify if needed.

[Loudbea7]

I mean, not from the smmx file, but you have the palette and colorinfo which are fixed for the default colors you can select.
If you want those values you can set a node to a default color and look at the style. default colors have a palette and colorinfo value from 1 to 8 in the smmx file
When palette value is 0 it means it's not a default color.

If you want the original default Simplemind colors they are:
palette = 1 > RGB = 0,51,255 Hue = 152 Sat = 240 Lum = 120
palette = 2 > RGB = 255,0,0 Hue = 0 Sat = 240 Lum = 120
palette = 3 > RGB = 255,153,0 Hue = 24 Sat = 240 Lum = 120
palette = 4 > RGB = 234,234,0 Hue = 40 Sat = 240 Lum = 110
palette = 5 > RGB = 51,255,0 Hue = 723 Sat = 240 Lum = 120
palette = 6 > RGB = 0,204,255 Hue = 128 Sat = 240 Lum = 120
palette = 7 > RGB = 153,0,255 Hue = 184 Sat = 240 Lum = 120
palette = 8 > RGB = 255,128,192 Hue = 220 Sat = 240 Lum = 180

I understand your idea about doing a cfg file for the colors, and I don't mind the final obsidian colors to be the exact values of the default color from Simplemind.
I would prefer to assign for example
palette = 1 to the default gray Obsidian color.
palette = 2 to the default red Obsidian color
And so on, except for the pink Simplemind color that doesn't have a match, so that would have to be a custom Obsidian color.

In Obsidian, the default colors are stored with numbers from 1 to 6, the default gray one doesn't have the color parameter, and custom colors have values like this: "color":"#ec74ae"

What I'm trying to say in simpler words, is that
Simplemind default color blue = palette="1" could be assigned to default Obsidian gray
Simplemind default color red = palette="2" could be assigned to default Obsidian red = "color":"1"
and so on.

Does that make sense? I'm sorry for the hassle, I think it's a simple idea but I might not have done a good job explaining it.