{"id":50559,"date":"2019-07-11T13:32:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T18:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=50559"},"modified":"2019-10-09T12:13:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T17:13:40","slug":"how-to-adjust-the-system-accent-highlight-colors-in-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/50559-how-to-adjust-the-system-accent-highlight-colors-in-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Adjust the System Accent &#038; Highlight Colors in macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>macOS Mojave introduced six new <g class=\"gr_ gr_7 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"7\" data-gr-id=\"7\">accent<\/g> and highlight colors (as far as I can tell from the beta version, no new colors will be introduced with macOS Catalina, coming this fall).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These colors affect various different parts of the operating system, such as menu button clicks and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To give \u2018em a try:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the Apple menu and choose System Preferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click General.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below the Light and Dark buttons, you\u2019ll see the Accent color option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Accent-color-graphic.png\" alt=\"General Preferences pane in macOS Mojave\" class=\"wp-image-50562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Accent-color-graphic.png 643w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Accent-color-graphic-117x120.png 117w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Accent-color-graphic-284x291.png 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Accent-color-graphic-186x190.png 186w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Accent-color-graphic-117x120@2x.png 234w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Accent-color-graphic-284x291@2x.png 568w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Accent-color-graphic-186x190@2x.png 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You can choose from blue, purple, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, or graphite.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t like any of those choices? Click on &#8220;Other&#8221; in the Highlight Color dropdown and a color picker will pop up allowing you to customize your accent color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Changing your accent color will automatically change your highlight color to match. Highlight color is the color of highlighted text. However, you can choose to have different highlight colors and accent colors. To change the former, just select a color from the Highlight color drop-down menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>macOS Mojave introduced six new accent and highlight colors (as far as I can tell from the beta version, no new colors will be introduced with macOS Catalina, coming this fall).&nbsp; These colors affect various different parts of the operating system, such as menu button clicks and more. 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