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Unlike Windows, you can’t do much to make the software on your Mac look different from everyone else’s. But you can make your Mac more like you by Change Accent and Highlight Colors on Mac. This is how! Mac users with macOS Mojave or later can change the look of their operating system by choosing from eight different accent and highlight colors. You can also choose different colors for the accent and highlight colors.
Accent colors change the color that is used to highlight Mac menu items, folders, files, and icons. You can choose from a list of glimmering themes and background colors. In the same way, you can change how your device shows these colors to suit your tastes.
It comes with a variety of standard colors that respond automatically to changes in vibrancy and usability settings like increasing contrast and decreasing transparency. You can use these colors to choose app colors that look great on their own and with both light and dark backgrounds. Now, let’s find out how to change the system accent color on a Mac.
How to Change Mac Accent Color
- Open the System Settings app on your Mac.
- In the left-hand toolbar, select Appearance. If you can’t find this, you can look for it in the search bar.
- After clicking on the Appearance tab, you’ll see a tab called Accent color. Click on whichever circle you’d like to change the color to, and your changes will take immediate effect.
How to Change Mac Highlight Color
- Open the System Settings app. Like if you were trying to change your accent color, you’ll need to find the Appearance tab and click on it.
- Look for the Highlight color tab. Here, you’ll see a dropdown menu that you need to expand.
- Once you’ve expanded the dropdown menu, select your new highlight color
FAQs
Click and drag to select the desired text. Secondary click or hold the ‘control’ key and click the selected text. Hover over ‘Highlight’ and select your desired highlighter. Alternatively, select ‘Edit’ in the top bar, hover over ‘Highlight’, and select your desired highlighter.
Go to the Apple menu and go to “System Preferences” Choose the “General” preference panel. Near the top of the panel pulldown the menu next to “Highlight color:” and pick the color to change to.J
In the Preview app on your Mac, open the PDF you want to change. Do any of the following: Quickly highlight, underline, or strike through text: Select text, click the down arrow next to the Highlight button , then choose a highlight color, underline, or strikethrough.
The Alt + keytips can also apply / remove highlighting. Alt, H , I reaches the highlighting pull-down menu with Yellow highlight as the default. Press Enter to apply Yellow highlighting (the default color, top left).