How to Add a Color and Text Label to a Mac Icon

The Mac OS (7.0 or higher) makes it easy to color-code a folder or document. You can also customize the labels and colors themselves.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer Keyboards
• Mac OS 9.0
• Image-editing Software
• Image-editing Software

1. Click once on the name or icon of the file or folder to select it.

2. Click on the Edit menu and choose Labels; select the label you like.

3. To customize the label, click on the Edit menu, select Preferences and choose the Labels tab.

4. Click on the color box to change the label color. You can choose from six different color pickers: the CMYK Picker, Crayon Picker, HLS Picker, HSV Picker, HTML Picker and RGB Picker. Choose the color you like.

5. Change the text label by selecting the name of the label and typing whatever description you like.

Tips & Warnings

• CMYK Picker gives you slider bars for degrees of cyan, magenta, yellow and black, the colors used in professional printing.
• Crayon Picker gives you a box of crayons and has names for all of the colors.
• HLS Picker gives you a color circle with a crosshair cursor that you can mouse around to select a hue angle, color saturation and lightness (0%-100%).
• HSV Picker gives you a color circle with a crosshair cursor that you can mouse around to select a hue angle, color saturation and value (0%-100%).
• HTML Picker gives you slider bars for degrees of red, green and blue (0%-100%), reveals the color code for the Web (such as #FF3300), and allows you to "snap to" the corresponding Web color.
• RGB Picker gives you slider bars for degrees of red, green and blue (0-100%).