cant place colored text anymore on signs

[Tuin™]

for some reason the game refuses to let me place colored text in signs, whenever i type "<color=white> the moment i type the last bracket everything vanishes i don't know what to do

[Veseljko]

yes, it changes the color of your font and removes the text in brackets.

[Tuin™]

yeah i just noticed sorry it seriously didn't do that before lol :D

[Krackbone]

same. signs are definitely broken for now.

[Cete von Holstein]

Patch 0.217.22
* Replaced all texts fields to be clearer and more optimised
* Replaced all text input fields with new component to work on all platforms

Optimised? Ruined!
On all platforms? Not on a PC anymore.
Vanishing format signs? Using size formats affects the size in the editor?
Really? Please Devs remove that behavior, its completely nonsense.

[Reptiloid]

+1
same here. Before the patch, you could easily see colored signs in the dark at night, even without a lamp. they glowed by themselves. the patch completely ruined that!

[Krackbone]

Originally posted by Cete von Holstein:

Patch 0.217.22
* Replaced all texts fields to be clearer and more optimised
* Replaced all text input fields with new component to work on all platforms

Optimised? Ruined!
On all platforms? Not on a PC anymore.
Vanishing format signs? Using size formats affects the size in the editor?
Really? Please Devs remove that behavior, its completely nonsense.

definitely ruined...this should be rolled back asap

[Crimson]

I've been able to get stuff to work by pasting something like this in:

<color=grey>Test

Then delete the gre and type something like blue, then erase the y. And the text suddenly becomes blue. I haven't been able to get all colors to work (like white) but play around with how you type in the color and you might get some of them to work. Someone smarter than me will probably provide a fool proof way but that's what I've found so far.

[Tuin™]

i found that if you copy paste <color=white> into the sign then type the text you want it works too

[damousey]

From what I can tell the formatting disappears but gets applied instantly, I'm hoping this means the style tags no longer count against the character limit. this change includes size and linebreaks with \n, "Gray" seems to be a problem but #ddd works. the downside of this change seems to be that you can no longer copy and paste between signs because you can no longer copy the styling.

[Cete von Holstein]

Originally posted by damousey:

...I'm hoping this means the style tags no longer count against the character limit. ...

Unfortunately not. Just tested it: the limit is 50, so if you use <color=white> you have 37 left for the text - although the color-format vanishes immediately. So there is neither logic nor benefit for the vanishing format.

Using size formats to get nearby signs having a comparable text-height makes the text in the editor unreadable. Example: using <size=5> results in letters having less than a millimeter height in the text-entry (depends on grafic settings of course). What's the use of an editor if you cannot even read what you've written.

Hint
Once you've used a size format you cannot really edit the text for you cannot read the letters or delete the size format. It seems that you're stuck and the only solution ist to destroy and rebuild the sign. Its not: press control+a (marks the whole entry) and delete. Et voila a brand new entry is possible.

The feature that the signs had a self-glooming had been used by us for various nice effects. Most of them disappeared and although I know that building lights can help I wish to have the possibilites back that were given before. We play in a mystic/fantasy world so self-glooming letters are not really a contradiction.

Another result of text-optimisation:
While cooking some descriptions cannot be read anymore due to the small height of the text. Being experienced in the game we identify them by their symbols or the ingredients-description.

I don't have an idea about the problems on other platforms than PC or even in crossplay. But on a PC regarding texts everything was better before. Especially editing signs: all the fine things we could do before now need trial&error with an external text-editor.


Edit:
Additional hint to save letters while using color formats. You may also use HTML-codes. Example:
<color=white> is the same as <#ffffff>
And: if the HTML-code consists of three pairs (xxyyzz) only one sign of a pair is necassary. Examples:
<color=white> is the same as <#fff>
<color=red> is the same as <#f00> (long. #ff0000)
Last but not least some of the HTML-codes work while the method using the color-name do not. Example:
<color=lime> doesn't work while <#0f0> does.

[SpotGhot]

How many colors are there to choose from?

Gray doesn't seem to exist anymore and white is too light during the day.

[Horemvore]

Colours are limitless if you use Hex codes for them. For example <color= #e0e0e0> Light Grey

A site to find colours:

https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-picker/

[Ainarel]

Originally posted by MGDDops:

+1
same here. Before the patch, you could easily see colored signs in the dark at night, even without a lamp. they glowed by themselves. the patch completely ruined that!

Yep, true that -- the patch ruined the signs and they lost most of their glow.
Not cool, devs. Not cool. :( It was a quite comfortable and nice-looking feature.

[SpotGhot]

Originally posted by Horemvore:

Colours are limitless if you use Hex codes for them. For example <color= #e0e0e0> Light Grey

A site to find colours:

https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-picker/

Oh great thank you that is helpfull

[muchdebate]

Originally posted by MGDDops:

+1
same here. Before the patch, you could easily see colored signs in the dark at night, even without a lamp. they glowed by themselves. the patch completely ruined that!

EXACTLY the whole point was to get signs that were readable, and this ruined it.