Shader Graph on UI Text elements?

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I’m creating a 2D isometric 1-bit styled game. I’ve made all the sprites in the game in black and white.

I have made a Shader Graph shader that replaces colors. It changes white to gray(ish), and black to brown. Players should be able to customise the colors to replicate old CRT-monitors, so I want to use the shader on every object in the game. So far it works very well on sprites, but I’m having trouble with using the shader for text.

When I add the shader to a Text UI object, I expected white text to become the gray-ish color that I set in the shader, but for some reason it becomes the (other) brown color. When I change the text color to black, I expected it to become brown, but it just stays black.

Any ideas why my shader doesn’t work as expected on text elements?

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Based on UI Text Shine Effect , creating shader for UI text requires (1) duplicating the default UI shader code then (2) modifying the script to achieve the desired effect. I think this process is not doable in shader graph but by manual shader scripting.

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So you know for the future, the 2D forum isn’t related to UI, UI is implemented by a different team. The UI forum is here. The Shader Graph forum is here.