{"id":63,"date":"2007-06-11T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T14:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/desktop\/2007\/06\/11\/feeling-colorful\/"},"modified":"2007-06-11T10:05:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T15:05:51","slug":"feeling-colorful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2007\/06\/11\/feeling-colorful\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling colorful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/bluedesktop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/bluedesktop_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To change the colors of the desktop, go to the File menu -> Preferences.  Select &#8220;Colors&#8221; in the preferences tree:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/colorpref1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/colorpref1_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unselect the checkbox &#8220;Use system colors&#8221; and then set the Text color and Background color to your favorite colors and hit the OK button:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/colorpref2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/colorpref2_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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]:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/yellowdesktop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/yellowdesktop_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>1 &#8211; Note that I do not really recommend this color combination.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2007\/06\/11\/feeling-colorful\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}