COMSOL Desktop Color Themes
There are three color theme preferences, which you can specify on the Color Themes page under User Interface in the Preferences dialog box:
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The Desktop color theme, which controls the look of all windows and user interface components except the Graphics window and the Help window. For the COMSOL Desktop, you can choose between a Default, Light, or Dark theme.
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The Graphics color theme, which controls the colors in the Graphics windows. The default is Same as desktop color theme; that is, to use the same theme as the desktop. You can also choose Basic, COMSOL, Dark, DarkSelection, Default, Light, LightSelection, and RYB.
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The Image export color theme, which controls the look of exported images. The reason to have a separate setting is to make it possible to, for example, run the COMSOL Desktop in dark mode while still making light-mode image files. The Default color theme is the default setting. You can also choose Same as graphics color theme, Basic, COMSOL, Dark, DarkSelection, Light, LightSelection, and RYB. You can also specify the color theme when printing and exporting images using the Print and Image Snapshot dialog boxes (see Capturing and Copying Screenshots).
The following built-in color themes are available:
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The Basic color theme is based on basic colors such as red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta, orange, rose, azure, violet, crimson, purple, cerise, amber, and aquamarine.
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The COMSOL color theme is based on the COMSOL brand-related colors.
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The Dark and DarkSelection color themes provide colors for a dark mode.
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The Default color theme provides colors similar to those in previous COMSOL versions. The default colors that are used for colored selections are chosen for maximum usability.
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The Light and LightSelection color themes provide colors for a light mode.
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The RYB color theme is based on primary to quaternary RYB (red-yellow-blue) colors.
When using the dark mode on Linux®, some controls take their color from the operating system’s theme. It is therefore recommended to pick an operating system theme that works well together with the COMSOL theme (a dark-looking theme in Linux together with the dark mode in the COMSOL Desktop, for instance).
The built-in color themes are stored in the data/colors folder. You can also define user-defined color themes as text files in the v61/colors preference folder. See Color Tables and Color Themes in the COMSOL Multiphysics Programming Reference Manual.
The color settings that are not included in a color theme get the default colors depending on whether the desktop color theme is the dark, light, or default theme.
Figure 2-13: The COMSOL Desktop when using the dark theme.