Tip #3468 - Customizing Your Fonts and Colors
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Customizing
Your Fonts and Colors
Did you know that
you can customize the fonts and colors of all the Windows and Internet
Explorer HTML pages on the Internet? Well, if you didn't before, you know
now!
First, here is how
you would change the colors for a standard window (for example, the My
Documents window) in Windows.
1.) Go to
Start, Control Panel to open the Control Panel.
2.) Double click
on the Display icon (for Windows XP, you'll probably
have to switch to the classic
Control Panel view).
Alternately, you could
replace steps 1 and 2 by right clicking on your desktop and choosing Properties.
It's your choice.
3.) In the Display
Properties window, go to the Appearance tab and click
the Advanced button.
4.) In the Advanced
Appearance window, click the drop down menu labeled Item
and click on Window. That should be
on the bottom of the list. (You may also change icon spacing, font and
other options that are available on this list, if you so choose).
5.) The Color
1 box is the background color and the Color
box is the text color. You can click on the box and select a color you
would like for the background and the foreground (text).
6.) When you're finished,
press OK for the Advanced Appearance window and OK
for the Display Properties window.
If you now go to any
of your folders on the computer, the background and text colors should
have changed to what you've selected.
If you would like
to have all the HTML pages in Internet Explorer to have these background
and foreground colors as well, you'll have to enable this option in Internet
Explorer. Here's how.
7.) Open an Internet
Explorer window and go to Tools, Internet Options.
Press the Accessibility button.
8.) In the Accessibility
window, select all the options you would like. In the example, I have
selected to ignore the colors, font styles and font sizes specified by
Web pages, but do whatever you'd like. When you're finished, press OK.
In other words, the
pages that are displayed will have the background color and text colors
that you specified (steps 1 through 6 from above), rather than the colors
or fonts specified by that Web page. (If you have your own style sheet,
you can use that by selecting that option).
If you want just
the Web pages in Internet Explorer to have a certain color that is different
than the colors specified for all windows, you can set it through the
Internet Options. Here is how you do that.
9.) Open an Internet
Explorer window and go to Tools, Internet Options.
10.) Press the Colors
button to edit the color options. When finished, press OK.
This will allow you
to change the colors for the pages and for the links on the pages that
are displayed in Internet Explorer. (Selecting Use Windows colors
will set the colors to what you specified in steps 1 through 6 from above).
11.) Press the Fonts
button to edit the font options. When you're done, press OK.
This will allow you
to change the font for the pages that are displayed in Internet Explorer.
Note: Depending
on what you prefer, you can use a combination of the above steps to make
the Internet pages certain colors and fonts and the standard windows to
have certain colors and fonts as well. Once you make all your selections,
your computer will look brand new with all of your different and exciting
colors and fonts. Yes!
~ Arun Matharoo
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