Questions tagged [color]
The digital display of colors, and the accurate calibration thereof
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How can I find color codes on Mac?
I used to find color codes which I want to use for texts or background colors on htmls with color edit tool of MS paint which pre-installed on Windows.
But now I use Mac instead of Windows.
How can I ...
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Change Dock color on left/right site in OS X 10.9 Mavericks
New in OS X Mavericks, when using the famous dock on the left or right site:
It has a white background now. It makes it hard to see the icons and the design is awful.
Does anyone know how to change ...
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I-beam cursor color in Mavericks's terminal
After upgrading to Mavericks the I-beam cursor in the terminal became less visible (see screenshot, I am using the Pro profile with a dark background)
Is there a way to change the cursor's color or ...
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Is there a way to export syntax color settings from one Xcode installation to a new one?
I have installed a new XCode 4 on a machine and I'd like to copy/paste the syntax coloring settings from the first one to the new one. How may I do this ?
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How can I get the hexadecimal functionality of Digital ColorMeter back?
I often used Digital ColorMeter to capture colours as hex codes for web development. For some reason, Lion's version has removed a whole load of functionality, including this. Some people have managed ...
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Prettify OS X console by coloring output?
OS X terminal is not using colors for highlighting output from different commands, for example ls.
When compared with other systems like Ubuntu, this is a big loss of accessibility/productivity.
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OS X Color Picker: Removing a Colour Swatch
I am running OS X El Capitan, and any solutions I have found are out of date.
I can add a colour to my swatch drawer by dragging it. However, how do I remove a colour?
All the articles I have read ...
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MacBook Pro display suddenly has a very faint warm/pink tint
I have a MacBook Pro Touch 2017. A few days ago, I noticed that the display seems to have started to have a very faint warm/reddish tint, but I can tell the difference nonetheless. The greys aren't "...
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Can I configure terminal to show stderr output in different colour
Is it possible to configure the terminal in OS X to show stderr output automatically in a different colour than stdout output from a process?
Or is this only possible if the process is outputting ...
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Why do colors appear washed out on macOS Chrome and Safari versus Firefox?
I'm using a new MacBook Pro 15" with macOS 10.13.4 configured with the default Color LCD color profile. I'm doing some graphic design work and noticed that all colors in Chrome and Safari appear "...
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How do I run VI with colors on Lion?
I'm looking to enable color syntax highlighting in vi. I just enabled colors in Terminal via here. Any ideas on how to enable this?
NOTE: Usually on Linux when I open vi with vi file.txt and it opens ...
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Any tool to tell me the exact color value at a point on a png image?
I want to get the exact color value(RGB, HSB, or any other color space value that can be converted to RGB value) at any given point(preferably the point under the cursor) on a png image. Any tool for ...
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How can I adjust the apparent color temperature of my display in OS X?
I really like f.lux, which is an app that automatically adjusts the display's apparent color temperature according to the time of day and location (so that the temperature is in sync with Sun).
How ...
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Can I customize ANSI colors in Terminal without extra tools like SIMBL?
I noticed that colors in the Snow Leopard Terminal.app aren't that great (using the Pro theme, but the other themes are worse).
There seems to be no easy way to customize the colors, and googling ...
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How to enable true color mode in an OS X Terminal?
NeoVim recently added support for True Color mode in terminals that support it. I've tried both Terminal 2.5.3 (343.7) and iTerm 2.1.1, and neither one can display more than 256 colors by default.
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Safari URL bar discoloration
In Safari (12.0.3 and probably earlier) the URL bar can have an element of discoloration. I think is partially driven by the content/colors of the page being displayed as the amount of discoloration ...
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How to change the color of the top menu bar on Monterrey to light gray?
I just upgraded my mac from Big Sur to Monterey and the color of the top bar changed from gray to this color:
I went to system preferences->Accessibility->Display and checked "Reduce ...
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Safari displays wrong color according to Digital Color Meter
I have the following HTML snippet open in Safari. Digital Color Meter reports the color as #FEDC53.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Broken Colors?</title>
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How are colorschemes represented in OS X Terminal.app Settings Files?
I'm interested in moving color values I've created for OS X Terminal to applications on other platforms, such as Linux. I'm familiar with the usual methods of representing color values like RGB, HSB, ...
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Terminal not displaying colors for directory listings
I don't know why my bash session doesn't show colors. I have tried Terminal as well as iTerm.
I have tried:
ls -G
Setting export CLICOLOR=1 and export LSCOLORS=GxFxCxDxBxegedabagaced
Using different ...
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Dell U2410 HDMI + OS X Lion very poor quality
Having plugged my MacBook Air (Mid-2012) into a Dell 24" 2410 monitor, the quality is terrible.
For reference the same monitor plugged into a Dell XPS M1330 running Windows 7 via HDMI give nice ...
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Where is the folder with color schemes used by vim?
I use vi on mac os x at work and on Ubuntu at home. I like the colorscheme vim uses on the mac and I'd like to copy the corresponding file on ubuntu, but I can't find it, since there's no ~/.vim ...
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Force Mac to display in grayscale
Is there a way to force OSX to display in monochrome(also known as grayscale)?
I'm working with a student who has ADHD (and I am mildly ADHD myself). The colors are too much for him/her to handle.
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Color Picker for OS X
Is there any app for mac which I use to know the RBG value of the point where my mouse is right now?
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Change terminal color for each tab
I work on a lot of tabs in terminal at a given time. Sometimes, I get tabs mixed up and accidently run commands on tabs I am not supposed to.
To simplify this, I wish to write some script, that on ...
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Reset/change Emoji color for human features
I inadvertently hit the wrong color for a human emoji. Holding it down does nothing and I really need this particular emoji to be correct.
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Easy way to take a screen shot that's NOT color corrected?
My displays are color calibrated every other month or so with a hardware calibration tool. When I take a screen shot of a profile aware app, such as photoshop or lightroom or some web browsers, I don'...
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Change output color of terminal (in Mac) to be different from typed text color
I know how to change the color of ls output, but I would like to change the color of all terminal output.
To make clear what I mean, below is a picture of my terminal. My text color is orange.
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A single shortcut that changes text color in Notes?
When using Notes I often find myself changing the color of the text (usually to blue or red) as an additional way to indicate emphasis (alongside italics and bold).
The shortcut for displaying the ...
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Enable or disable Night Shift via Terminal
I'm running an iMac model 14,2 which to my knowledge does not support Night Shift (I have heard it is only supported on late 2013+ models). Well I recently updated macOS 10.12.3 to macOS 10.12.4, and ...
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How to let Terminal on Mac OS behave show folders and executables and such in different colors? [duplicate]
On Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) the terminal shows you executables and folders and such in different colors so you can identify them easier. Is this possible on Mac OS Terminal, too?
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Choosing hexadecimal web colours
How can I choose hexadecimal web colours (like #000000 and #fffff) to use in system and third party apps? (e.g. an image editor like GraphicConverter)
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VIM in Terminal using Solarized Theme
I am trying to use the Solarized color scheme with VIM in Terminal on Mac OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion. However, the colors look washed out. They are lighter/paler than they should be. In MacVIM, the ...
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How can I get macOS to tell me what chroma sampling or subsampling is being used on an external display on an M1 mac?
After receiving my MacBookPro18,4 (i.e. MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021)) with an M1 Max chip and seeing the ProMotion display, I was hooked on high (>60Hz) refresh rates, and treated myself to a LG ...
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How do I invert the colors on my iPhone?
As a prank someone has inverted the colors on my iPhone. Black is white, blue is orange, etc. How do I get my phone back to normal?
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Choose specific UI accent color
Screenshot from System Preferences>General.
In macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (current OS for me), and other versions close in age, the highlight color used throughout the system can be changed to any RGB ...
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HEX Code in Color Chooser for Mavericks? [duplicate]
How can I get a HEX code entry into the Color Chooser for Mavericks?
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macOS grayscale except some apps
Is there anyway by which one can have grayscale system wide except some selected (by user) apps, on macOS?
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Changing preset colors in Keynote
I know how to create custom color palettes in MacOS Keynote. I also know that different presentation templates come with different set of preset colors. However, I can't find a way to change this set ...
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Where are Terminal.app profiles files located?
I just recently reinstalled OS X and forgot to back up all my sweet 'profiles' aka colour schemes. It would be very helpful if I could find the location of these so I can recover them from backup.
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Did Mavericks change the Mac's color profiles?
I just updated to Mavericks and noticed that the Skype icon in my dock is a deeper blue than it was before, and it looks like there's more contrast in general. Did the new version of OS X modify the ...
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Set a Display colour profile via Terminal or AppleScript? (Macbook)
I would like to be able to change the display colour profile of my MacBook, with a view to writing a program that changes the loaded colour profile on a shortcut key-press, or automatically at certain ...
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How do I choose the best color profile for a LG external monitor?
I recently bought a LG monitor 22MP55, to use at home as a second monitor with my MacBook Pro.
But the color is a little weird! Slightly yellowish.
I tried using it with a Windows 7 PC with the same ...
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How to change the color scheme in KeyNote 6?
In Keynote 6, each Theme comes with a color scheme. I cannot figure out where this color scheme is defined, nor how to change it.
How to change the color scheme?
Or this one from a different ...
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Output format of the standard Mac OS Color Picker dialog (choose color)
It is possible to create an AppleScript that calls for the standard Mac OS Color Picker dialog (choose color) and gets the output value after user picks some color:
set the rez to choose color
set ...
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Numbers standard cell dark mode
In Numbers, is there any way to make all standard cells of all spreadsheets (including existing spreadsheets created by others) be displayed in dark mode (i.e. have a black background with white text)?...
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Photoshop to iPad color profile woes
This is driving me insane.
I always design in Photoshop with my monitor profile as the active profile. My PSD's are never color managed. This is the way I've designed since I can remember and I have ...
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Bug? macOS Sierra Preview/Quick Look issues with rendering colors of images when using any icc profile other than the macOS standard
When I installed Sierra I also profiled my display (with a spectrometer) and have been using the created icc profiles since then.
Both Quick Look preview and the macOS preview app when displaying ...
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1993 Apple Color Classic
Lets all take a long journey back about 21 years ago when apple released their color classic. It was pretty awesome right? Well I managed to get my hands on one but I have some sad news.
When I go to ...
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Software Screen Tinting, or Colour Overlay for Mac Users with Dyslexia
There are students at the school I work at who are dyslexic, and have the specific strand of dyslexia which doesn't deal well with black text on a white background. One way you overcome this with ...
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