Not sure exactly what you mean, if you mean "how did you get custom colors", that's a feature of pablodraw supported by the xbin (and tundra and 24bit ansi) format.



If you mean "how did I get those particular colors", well the blues and cyans are almost stock ANSI colors. I'd have to go back and see if I tweaked them (I think I did), but if so it wasn't by much. The greys are the stock grey/white colors darkened by about 30% or so. The pinks I was lucky enough to get right just about on the first try. If memory serves, I took the stock "bright purple", modified that, and then made a darker version of it by just scaling down all the RGB values by the same amount. The purples are both "from-scratch", and they took some experimenting. They started out more indigo and I ended up tweaking them a couple times before getting them to the version they're at here.



my general process is to take a look at whatever I'm using for my source, set aside my 4 greys (most pieces I don't use white, I make it "light grey"), and then figure out what remaining 6 colors are most prominent in the pice, then I make a "bright" version of and a "dark" version of each of those 6 colors. I'll usually use the stock ANSI colors as a base to work from if I can, although sometimes I can't. there's no orange, olive, etc. in the stock ANSI palette.