[5G / 5.5G] Font Color Change

[omfgkm]

INTRODUCTORY TWEAK - CHANGING YOUR TITLEBAR FONT COLOR

It's finally happened. The ability to change your font color, among other things.

Open iPW, load your firmwire. Go to Layout, scroll down to Font Types. In that list, go down to item 24223, which is the titlebar string. Now look at the z2 tag. It should say 0xFF000000. We're going to change that. Click on it so that the cursor goes into the hex field and highlights the first character in the series of hex, which should at the moment say 00 00 00 FF. Ignore the FF at the end, and change the first three digit series from 00 00 00 to DD 00 00. Write your iPod, eject, and look. Your titlebar text is now red!

CHANGING YOUR MENU FONT COLOR - 1-BIT FONTS ONLY

Open iPW, load your firmwire.
Go to Layout, scroll down to Font Types.
In that list, go down to item 24222.
Now look at the z2 tag. It should say 0xFF000000. Click on it and change the first three digit series from 00 00 00 to DD 00 00.
Go to the fontID tag, and click on it. On the right, click the "Decimal" select button.
Back to the left, in the editing textbox, type in the String ID for the font you want to change to. To find this, click the Strings tab and look for the list of fonts in Language Block 24. Pick one, and punch in the 5-digit number into the fontID tag.
Write your iPod, eject, and look. Your menu text is now red! However, you won't have the same font. This is currently the only way to change your menu font color.


FONT RESOURCES - WHERE THEY GO - OTHER FUNCTIONS
24222 - Menu Text - All main text on your iPod.
24223 - Title Bar - Also changes your "Do not disconnect" text, and your "Song # of #" text in 'Now Playing'
24224 - Titlebar Text Shadow - Text shadow in Stopwatch, Screen Lock, etc. Alignment has no effect.
24225 - Secondary Text - Settings options, On/Off strings, etc. Basically anything that's right-justified.

OTHER RESOURCES -- SPECIAL THANKS TO aLtgLasS

14034 - Dates belonging to the current month in the calendar
14035 - Dates not belonging to current month in the calendar
14039 - Event info field labels
14040 - Time of events in calendar
22199 - Buttons in Stopwatch
27971 - Contact # of ##
27972 - Contact info field value
27973 - Contact info field label
-592 - Title of calendar events in summary
-548 - Search term in input box
-554 - "No Results Found"
-550 - Amount of search results displayed on the input form
-549 - List of search results while in input form
-344 - Alphabetical index while scrolling fast through the media library


FONT RESOURCE TWEAKS EXPLAINED
fontID - Changes where the given resource looks for the font in question. 24124 is Podium Sans, etc.
z1 - Not sure yet--will experiment.
Font Size - Self-explanatory. For God's sake, though, check the Fonts section and make sure that size exists for the font you want to change. Example: Podium Sans has 14, 16, 18, 22, 28. Those numbers will work. Others may not, and can brick you, causing you to have to return to iPW and change it back.
z2 - Color--hex format. Click HERE for a quick and decent hex color table.
z3 - Justification--0x1 for Left, 0x101 for Center (perfect to use with the menu text for easy centered menus!), 0x201 for Right. There are a few resources that use 0x200, but I don't feel like getting into all that, not right now.


VIDEO TUTORIAL BY aLtgLasS - CLICK


NANO VERSION
DJ ported this to the Nano, which is available here
http://www.ipodwizard.net/showthread.php?t=22918


EXAMPLES OF USE
ipwn3.0 - full theme - by omfgkm
Font Hack by aLtgLasS
Font Hack by ShadowHarlequin

Post your examples of font hack usage and get a spot up on the board!


FINAL NOTES
I take no responsibility for any screw-ups you may accomplish. Likewise, I don't hold this over anyone's head--this is totally up to you to use; this is not "my hack". I found it, that's about it. So have fun!

Good luck, and thanks to everyone who has found this useful and responded accordingly.


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[iPodHacker_]

damn.

it actually works..


*claps*

good job mate!!

[omfgkm]

Thanks! I actually can't believe nobody's looked into the font types for ways to further hack the iPod. I was lying in bed last night busting my brain over it, and finally it hit me.

I'm going to start doing the trial-and-error run of changing every Podium Sans, size 18 font, as those are the only significant ones that show up frequently on the device. There are only a handful of them, so it won't be too hard. I'll update the main post with my findings.

[OO7ISBACK]

good stuff man.....reallly good find

[zvev]

nice job i cant wait for all of the menu's to be colored

[iPodHacker_]

yeah,i want to know how that Podium Sans goes.



*this should be stickied*

[Ipodo]

sweet man! please keep us update with the resources number

[omfgkm]

Okay. Unfortunately I think we're screwed as far as changing the main font color goes. I can change everything but.

If anyone wants to help, look around for size 18 Podum Sans (font id # 24124). 00 00 00 means black, change it to whatever. I've looked everywhere, though, and can't find the main font resource.

[Ballaboardin]

wow amazing find man

[Kingstone]

Nice work man!
I will look at it and tell you how to change the general color soon when i find it.