How to Change System Colors and Fonts on a Mac

The standard look of your Mac OS screen - its theme, appearance and font - can be changed to suit your personality. These instructions work for Mac OS 8.0 and later.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Macintosh Computers
• Mac OS 9.0

1. Open the Apple menu and choose Control Panels, then Appearance.

2. Click on the Themes tab to change the look of title bars, windows and progress bars.

3. Click on the Appearance tab to change the overall look of menus, icons, windows and controls; to change the highlight color for selected text; and to change the variation color for menus and controls.

4. Click on the Fonts tab to change the large system font (menu bar and headings), the small system font (explanatory text and labels), and the views font (lists and icons).

Tips & Warnings

• Changing the highlight color to one that's too dark will make the selected text difficult to read; changing to too light a color will make it hard to see what text is selected.
• Changing a font or a font size to one that's too large may crowd your screen; changing to one that's too small will make it difficult to read the text. Usually, a sans serif font (Geneva, Helvetica, Chicago) is easier to read on-screen than a serif font (Times, New York).

[aloha2483]

on 7/8/2009 Help on my OS X 10.5.7 there is no "Themes" in Appearance. The menu / windows font are so small it is causing me eye strain.
Thanks for any help.s