Colored circles

My phone is haunted lately, it has lost a bunch of data.

So now Signal thinks I'm a new person on my phone which is sad for two reasons:

1. I liked re-reading messages D sent me around the time we started dating (it cheers me up when I'm sad! I'm a sappy bastard and I'm not ashamed of it (too much) (any more)!)
2. My contacts have differently-assigned random colors in the circles next to their names now! People and groups who haven't uploaded a profile image just have the initials of whatever word(s) they are identified with.

D should be green (best color, no surprise), now he's gray. A yellow friend is now purple. And a blue friend is green! I just nearly sent him a text meant for D!

I didn't realize how much I depended on the colors, ha.