Color picker option for fonts

[bungadrum]

Can you add the option in preferences to change the font into a color of your choice. Maybe a simple color picker or by adding a hex code field.

[Darazaki]

Do you have a specific use case for this? Are there maybe GTK themes with poor contrasts that'd need a workaround?

If it's a matter of visibility then maybe I'd need to also add a way to set the background color too or simply have a "high contrast" mode where the background & font colors would be pure white & black

[bungadrum]

No specific use case maybe a way where you can set the font to follow your GTK theme accent color

[Darazaki]

In that case I'd rather not implement that sorry. Adding this kind of functionality would bloat the settings panel and add a bit of code complexity for something that'd (imo) barely be used

However, if you want to implement this feature into your own fork and have some questions I'd be happy to help! I know this is not what you wanted but that way you could have the feature without adding complexity to the main codebase :)

The code that initializes the label you're looking for is here: https://github.com/Darazaki/Spedread/blob/7d4cb682176e5be185864009c36d79ec9715b299/src/SpedreadReadTab.vala#L79-L82

To change the text's color, you can add a Pango attribute to the label like so:

// Set the `_word` label's color to pure red
_word.attributes.insert (Pango.attr_foreground_new (
    /* red   = */ uint16.MAX,
    /* green = */ 0,
    /* blue  = */ 0
));

Keep in mind that colors in GTK are RGB with 16-bits per color and not 8 so instead of being in the range [0, 255] they're in [0, 65535]