[mkgmap-dev] Garmin colour palette

Fri Feb 26 05:59:15 GMT 2010

thanks! Very useful!

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Daniela Duerbeck
<daniela.duerbeck at gmx.de> 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
>
>
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