How to change colors?

[n8gray]

This project is really awesome, but I'd like to change the colors to something a bit easier to read. In config.json there are a bunch of colors listed, but I have no idea where the listed colors come from or how to specify new colors by hex value. I tried "#8888ff" and "8888ff", but neither way worked. Any documentation or advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

[seamia]

Hi Nathan,

thank you for your interest.

here is how you can change the colors used:

1. copy config.json into n8gray.config
2. inside n8gray.config find section "colors", there you will find colors used and their "translation"
3. let's say you want to change the background of the service block header - change "enum.header": "paired9:3", to "service.header": "#ffffff", (the result of your modifications needs to be a valid JSON file, ... kinda obvious =)
4. run protodot with you configuration, e.g. protodot -config n8gray.config -src source.proto -output resulting.dot

• when it comes to the names of the colors (used in the config.json), they are referring to names used in: https://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/colors.html

• if you see something like "greys9:5" - it means color scheme "greys9" (see the link above) and color of index "5" in that scheme.

hope this helps

=)