How To Change Highlight Color On Mac?

Highlighting text is a useful way to emphasize the important sections of your notes, book, or any other documents. You can highlight different colors with the help of different arrows for making your texts and sentences obviously shown. The default color used here is Black. Similarly, you can use any color that you like from the Color Strip at the bottom of your Mac. But there may be a situation when you want to change the highlight color on Mac. Hence in this post we will discuss how to change highlight color on Mac?

There are two different systems of highlighting colors in the Mac system interface. When you want to give an explanation or add notes to comment, you can choose the color highlight option to take notice of your action to the comment.

The other highlighting system is when you want to select a row of texts to make changes. The highlight color in the texts comes behind the texts and is used for selection.

The purpose of the highlight behind texts is that so you can see and select the desired texts in which you want to make changes. Otherwise, if the color of the selected texts is the same as your light or dark Mac theme, you won’t be able to see the texts you have selected. This highlight of color behind texts is primarily for aesthetic view and mitigating errors in visualization.

Changing the highlight colors in comments or notes

When you add a particular note or comment to a particular line of a document you can highlight the line of texts and add a comment or note to it. This highlight is helpful as if you want particular people to notice it or you can just highlight it for your reading and want to express your comment on it for future purposes. If you want to change the highlight color:

1. Open your note or page in which you want to highlight the texts.
2. Select the texts you want to highlight and click on the “Insert” option on the top section of your options list for the app and select the “Highlight” option. You can also trigger the highlight settings by pressing the “Shift + Command + H” buttons on your keyboard.
3. The selected texts will be highlighted and there will be various new options available for you like a Tab explaining your highlight details and comments on the highlight.
4. Now select the “View” icon on the top and select “Comments & Changes” and go to “Author Color”.
5. Select your preferred color and you will see that the color of the highlighted texts has changed to your preferred color.

Changing the highlight color behind the texts

To change the highlight color of your Mac interface, you will need to follow the steps:

1. On the top left of your Mac Home Screen, click on the “Apple” icon.
2. You will see a list of options. Click on the “System Preferences” option.
3. Click on the “General” icon to proceed.
4. In the “General” tab, look for the “Highlight Color” option and from the drop-down list select your preferred color.
5. After selecting your choice of color, close the Tab settings.
6. Now go to any page to test your changes. Open a text document from your local storage directory and select a line or a paragraph. You will see that; the color of the highlight is according to your choice.
7. If you change the settings of your highlight color in another tab while selecting the texts, it will apply your changes immediately and you will see the color changing to your selected color.

Summary: Change highlight color on Mac

• Open System Preferences.
• Click Accessibility.
• Select Display from the left side of the window.
• Check on "Increase contrast".
• Choose options for changing appearance and behavior.