Give the look of your Windows 10 a facelift by customizing the accent color displayed in the system interface.
While Windows 10’s interface looks pretty cool at first, the native colors used by the light and dark themes in Microsoft’s operating system are still quite austere. To embellish the interface of your OS, it is possible to configure it to use colors other than the traditional Microsoft blue.
In a few clicks, you can give your desktop a little facelift and, above all, give Windows 10 a more welcoming look. Here’s how.
1. Go to Settings
Click on the Start menu, enter Windows 10 Settings and then go to the section dedicated to System Customization.
2. Choose a theme
In the Personalization menu window, enter the section dedicated to Colors. You can first change the main color of the system.
In reality, you have to choose between the light theme, and the dark theme, applied to the entire interface of Windows 10. To lighten the whole a little, activate the Transparency effects.
You will thus obtain a taskbar displaying a transparency effect letting pass the color of the image used in the background on your Desktop.
3. Choose an accent color
On Windows 10, accent colors are the colors used to highlight certain system elements: window borders, Start menu icon, open software in the taskbar, etc. By default, this color is blue. You can optionally let Windows decide the color to select based on the image configured in the background on the OS desktop.
But you can also choose one of the predefined Windows Colors suggested by the Microsoft operating system from the palette displayed in the window. If none of them suits you, you can easily choose a Custom Color from the appropriate menu.
As soon as a color is selected, the first changes in the Windows 10 interface are visible, in the taskbar, or even from the Personalization settings window where the Color section is highlighted by the addition of a colorful mark.
4. Extend the application of accent color
Other interface elements may embrace the selected accent color. To do this, you will need to check the Start, taskbar and action center options, as well as Title bars and window borders.
As the name suggests very clearly, these two enabled options will allow you to extend the application of the accent color to other elements of the Windows 10 interface.
You will find these modifications in the Start menu, on the taskbar, in the notification center, in the title bars as well as on the borders of the various windows open in the OS.