In addition to the default blue, Apple provides eight other highlight color options that the company thinks work well with OS X (i.e., not too bright, not too dark, and not too distracting). There, you’ll see a drop-down menu labeled Highlight color, which should be set to the default “Blue” unless you or someone else using your Mac has previously changed it. To change the default OS X highlight color, head to System Preferences > General. But if you’re tired of blue and want to shake things up a bit, you can easily change the default OS X highlight color with a quick trip to System Preferences, and depending on your choice of color, you can notably alter the look of your Mac’s operating system. From selecting part of webpage or text in a document, to identifying a command in Terminal, to clicking on a file on your Mac desktop, OS X uses a color to highlight and denote the user’s selection.įor years, the default highlight color has been a light blue, and this color has become part of OS X’s unique look and feel. Like most operating systems, OS X uses a color-based highlighting effect when the user selects something in the user interface.
