Remarkable Pro Colors

A crafty tinkerer just dropped a simple way to preview the reMarkable Pro’s famously muted “color” on your computer, and the internet instantly split into camps. The tool uses a basic palette and a downloadable color profile so what you see on PC looks closer to the tablet’s washed-out, dithered vibe—aka “nostalgia filter” meets office spreadsheet.

The hype crowd? They’re calling it actually useful for real work. One pro hailed it as “fantastically useful” for checking how colored elements in PDFs will look on the device and even shouted out accessibility, saying this can help ensure folks with color-blindness can tell things apart. The post also explains the wild part: “white” on the Pro is basically gray, and the front light nudges blacks a hint blue. Cue the meme chorus: “sad beige for tablets.”

But the grumbles are louder than the colors. Creators complain they must press their pens like they’re bench-pressing pixels just to get thick lines. Devs pile on with demands to open-source the display drivers so pressure curves and color rendering can be fixed by the community. Then comes the scorched-earth take: great hardware, iffy software, and a side-eye at subscriptions and missing features like handwriting recognition for non‑Latin languages. And for perspective, a PocketBook owner chimed in to say color e‑ink everywhere still looks washed out. Translation: this isn’t just a reMarkable problem—this is an e‑ink problem.

Still, the DIY profile’s winning hearts for letting artists and readers soft‑proof before exporting with GIMP. Tiny colors, big feelings.