How to set default font color in settings.ts?

Hello,

I am accessing the color palette in visual.ts, and in cases where the user has not selected a fill color, it takes the first color from their color palette (in my current case, blue via colorPalette.getColor('0').value). It's all working great. However, the formatting pane still shows a non-selected color as its default, because I can't work out how to pass the blue colour into the settings.ts file. Is this actually possible?

I thought:

1) Import Visual into settings, but settings file runs before visuals file, and this would be a waste of memory anyway;

2) define a class within settings, and import the colour palette there, but that isn't working because I can't pass the VisualConstructorOptions into the class.

Any thoughts welcomed.