I guess just the color tag on the character is enough, though will likely need to manually enter the color-code each time (I have my own palette, even worse if I even need to change* it). Also neat that the outline can be change this way too (not shadow?), though seems a bit messy to stack these in BBCode.

I'm guessing custom effects might be the thing that would allow me to make my own color map. Not sure if that would always apply or if I'd have to wrap any icon in custom BBCode for that to apply, and either way still not textmesh (or label3d).

Also for my complaint on the node itself, I guess it's the same as a normal label with font scaling, just throws me off with the small default font size looking blurry in the editor (and existing fonts probably make more sense for smaller text, or even 2D text in general)

* shader globals don't seem to work here (unless I'm missing something), though also my palette is ordered (7x5) so a vertical list isn't great anyway. OTOH I did use 3-digit hex codes, so it's not difficult to type in (remembering/interpreting, not so much)

What’s your game about? 👀

No game yet (and maybe never), currently have mainly messed around with models+vertex colors (Blender, not good with that either), not quite happy with the gridmap node.

With my world so far I guess it has sort of a low-poly dream-core aesthetic, but without a pixel filter (nor textures mostly). Tile floors, purple sky and glowing moon, random stuff everywhere, and it's all on a floating island.