Ken & Mike on the MATLAB Desktop

June 11th, 2007

Feeling colorful?

Some days my eyes are tired and other days I am just bored with a white background and black text. On these days I go and set my MATLAB Desktop background and foreground colors to something different. I usually like the soothing colors of a light blue background with black text.

To change the colors of the desktop, go to the File menu -> Preferences. Select “Colors” in the preferences tree:

Unselect the checkbox “Use system colors” and then set the Text color and Background color to your favorite colors and hit the OK button:

If you are feeling adventurous or like you need something brighter you can set it to have a yellow background and hot pink text [1]:

1 - Note that I do not really recommend this color combination.

By Kristin Thomas

Kristin is a developer on the MATLAB Desktop team. She works primarily on the Command Window when she is not throwing herself down a mountain on her snowboard.

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6 Responses to “Feeling colorful?”

1. Michel Slivitzky replied on June 12th, 2007 at 19:36 UTC :
   

   How about changing background colors for the Editor ?

2. Kristin replied on June 13th, 2007 at 07:51 UTC :
   

   Changing the colors affects all the desktop components including the Editor. If you look in the pics above, I have the Editor docked in the desktop. If you mean changing the color for just the Editor, that is not currently an option.

3. Katie replied on June 15th, 2007 at 10:31 UTC :
   

   It would be great if you could set the different components to different colors…that way if you move them around you can spot them super quick…..

4. Kristin replied on June 15th, 2007 at 10:36 UTC :
   

   Thanks Katie. We will consider that for a future release.

5. Jon Oppelaar replied on March 9th, 2008 at 19:13 UTC :
   

   is there a way to change the color of the highlighted cells?

6. Ken replied on March 9th, 2008 at 20:09 UTC :
   

   Hi Jon,

   You can change the color of the highlighted cell by doing the following:

   1) Go to File -> Preferences -> Editor/Debugger -> Display
   2) In the ‘Cell display options’ section, select the desired color in the color picker next to the ‘Highlight cells’ checkbox.

   -Ken

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