[mkgmap-dev] Garmin colour palette

Sun Feb 28 14:35:09 GMT 2010

Daniela Duerbeck wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am not sure whether this is the correct ML for this posting, but I 
> think it is not completely wrong.
> I saw that the colour palette used in the online Typ file editor has too 
> few and some wrong colours, almost for my Garmin Etrex Legend HCx.
> 
> So I extracted the colour palette of a Garmin waypoint icon and built a 
> webpage that shows the correct colours (at least for my L:egend, I don't 
> know whether it is the same for other Garmins with 265 colours, but I 
> think so):
> http://www.deltadelta.de/garmin_colours/
> 
> You can also download all the pages for offline use:
> http://www.deltadelta.de/garmin_colours/garmin_colours.zip
> 
> When you click on one colour you get a page completely coloured in this 
> colour with the hex representation for better cutting and pasting it 
> into the editor.
> And also because a colour can better be judged when a big area is 
> coloured. (A wall painted looks always different from the small sample 
> in the shop ...)
> 
> Perhaps someone will find it useful.
> 
> Dani
> 
Dani,

Thanks for making this - very useful.  Have a look here too for more on 
Garmin colour palettes and optimising your TYP file to match:
http://clic0.free.fr/spip.php?article28 (in French)

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Charlie