Google Maps API 3 – Custom marker color for default (dot) marker

I’ve seen lots of other questions similar to this (here, here and here), but they all have accepted answers that don’t solve my problem. The best solution I have found to the problem is the StyledMarker library, which does let you define custom colours for markers, but I can’t get it to use the default marker (the one you get when you do a google maps search – with a dot in the middle), it just seems to provide markers with a letter in, or with a special icon.