The skin/hair/cloth-base/gear palette-ramp recoloring on the top-down Tiles character sprites looked bad, so it's disabled: tintedTileCanvas() now returns null, making every caller (drawCharTileCanvas, charTileTexture, in-game + customizer preview + Pixi) fall through to the native Kenney sprite art.
The customizer's top-down editor drops the Cloth/Skin/Hair and per-gear color rows and keeps only equipment PIECE selection (body/head/shield/weapon). The ASCII '@' color picker is unchanged (shown in the ascii/color branch, driven by colors.base via avatarVisuals.tintColorFor). Iso skin tint and premium generated-skins are untouched. Suite 46/317 green.
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