From 25e192bb674beff817997afd29e2bfd0fb75a830 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Soares <b.soares@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 22:00:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] JAL-4353 re-used random color code

---
 src/jalview/util/ColorUtils.java |    5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/util/ColorUtils.java b/src/jalview/util/ColorUtils.java
index 0e44f34..24128ea 100644
--- a/src/jalview/util/ColorUtils.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/ColorUtils.java
@@ -236,10 +236,7 @@ public class ColorUtils
 
     if ("random".equals(colour))
     {
-      Random rand = new Random();
-      col = new Color(rand.nextInt(256), rand.nextInt(256),
-              rand.nextInt(256));
-      return col;
+      return generateRandomColor(null);
     }
 
     try
-- 
1.7.10.2