quickest way to change the active space's foreground color?

[aspauldingcode]

instead of highlighting background color, I was able to change the active space foreground.

Problem is, the way I was trying to program my workspaces in yabai was too slow. I reverted back to default config options, and used index based instead of trying to label my spaces like I was.

While I lost the functionality to rename/move/delete/swap specific spaces and hide ones that have no windows from my bar, I am now unsure how to efficiently replicate the default config behavior for foreground color instead of background highlight connected to the $SELECTED function return value.

[aspauldingcode]

I've solved this issue for the default behavior of spaces:

for sketchybarrc:

#default space config behavior 
for i in {1..10}
do
  sid="$i"
  space=(
    space="$sid"
    icon="$i"
    icon.padding_left=4
    icon.padding_right=5
    # icon.margin_left=10
    # icon.margin_right=10
    background.color=$base02
    background.corner_radius=5
    background.height=13
    # background.width=10
    label.drawing=off
    icon.font="JetBrains Mono:Regular:10.0"
    script="$PLUGIN_DIR/space.sh"
    click_script="yabai -m space --focus $sid"
  )
  sketchybar --add space space."$sid" left --set space."$sid" "${space[@]}" ignore_association=on 
  sketchybar --subscribe space."$sid" mouse.clicked mouse.entered mouse.entered.global mouse.exited mouse.exited.global 
done

and for space.sh:

#almost default space.sh behavior...

source "$HOME/.config/sketchybar/colors.sh"

# the difference is in this line:
sketchybar --set "$NAME" background.drawing="$SELECTED" color=$base0A icon.highlight="$SELECTED" icon.highlight_color=$base0A

# and mouse events for special mouse-over highlight effect
case "$SENDER" in
  "mouse.entered")
    sketchybar --set $NAME icon.highlight=on icon.highlight_color=$base07
    ;;
  "mouse.exited" | "mouse.exited.global")
    sketchybar --set $NAME icon.highlight_color=$base0A icon.highlight=$SELECTED 
    ;;
  "mouse.clicked")
    # clicked effect
    sketchybar --set $NAME icon.highlight_color=$base0A label.highlight_color=$base0A
    sketchybar --set $NAME icon.highlight=$SELECTED label.highlight=$SELECTED
    ;;
esac