Pick the colours

Every party has a colour, and the legend and its bars follow it. Without one, the first four parties take orange, blue, grey and white, in that order.

Set a colour

A party’s colour is any #RRGGBB:

title = "FRAME RATE BY GRAPHICS API"
unit = "FRAMES PER SECOND"
better = "higher"
subtitle = "SAMPLE DATA, ONE SCENE, 1440P"
date = "2026-10-14"
suffix = " FPS"
decimals = 0
versus = "OPENGL"
notes = ["SAMPLE DATA FOR THIS README: EACH PARTY CARRIES ITS OWN COLOUR. EACH ROW COMPARES VULKAN WITH OPENGL."]

[[parties]]
name = "VULKAN"
colour = "#C678DD"

[[parties]]
name = "METAL"
colour = "#E5C07B"

[[parties]]
name = "DIRECTX 12"
colour = "#56B6C2"

[[parties]]
name = "OPENGL"
colour = "#8A92A0"

[[rows]]
label = "OPEN WORLD"
values = [144, 138, 141, 96]

[[rows]]
label = "CITY AT NIGHT"
values = [118, 121, 115, 74]

[[rows]]
label = "PARTICLES"
values = [210, 196, 204, 188]

$ pcmp frames.toml --kind paired
frames-paired.png

Use a role

In place of a hex colour, a party can name one of the chart’s own colours:

Role	Colour	Default for
ours	orange	the first party
theirs	blue	the second party
dim	grey	the third party
text	white	the fourth party
faster	green
slower	red

[[parties]]
name = "PARSER V2"
colour = "ours"

The ratio chart keeps its green for faster and red for slower whatever the parties’ colours are, so a win reads the same on every chart.