Can I change highlight or font color for a book in the library?

drypen · 11-23-2023, 05:53 PM

I don't see well so the white font with a light blue background is invisible to me. I don't really do the dark option well either. I am old (a great-grandmother actually) and usually I can figure stuff out on my own so this is frustrating. Making the font bold helps a bit but I would prefer to either make the highlight color darker or make the font black if possible.

EDIT: Cirtel's answer helped to narrow this down the most. It's not the highlighter color it's the white font. I changed the highlight color to a dark grey and was able to see the text clearly.

Sirtel · 11-23-2023, 06:18 PM

Do you use Windows? Calibre takes the highlight color from the Windows accent color; you'll need to change that. Settings (Windows settings, not calibre settings) -> Personalization -> Colors -> Choose your accent color.

jbacelar · 11-24-2023, 03:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Sirtel

Do you use Windows? Calibre takes the highlight color from the Windows accent color; you'll need to change that. Settings (Windows settings, not calibre settings) -> Personalization -> Colors -> Choose your accent color.

Yes, but it would be great to be able to manage the highlight color in Calibre in light mode, just like it is in dark mode.

BetterRed · 11-24-2023, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by jbacelar

Yes, but it would be great to be able to manage the highlight color in Calibre in light mode, just like it is in dark mode.

Because of QT there is no standard way for calibre to manage the color for selected books in either mode, there's a code workaround to overcome QT's deficiencies in Dark mode, see Kovid's post in ==>> https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=357273

You might be able to do something with the Jobspy plugin, there are settings in its configuration dialogue relating to book list row colors.

BR

Sirtel · 11-24-2023, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by BetterRed

You might be able to do something with the Jobspy plugin, there are settings in its configuration dialogue relating to book list row colors.

BR

I already looked, no highlighting options there.

jbacelar · 11-24-2023, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Sirtel

I already looked, no highlighting options there.

Correct.

drypen · 11-24-2023, 01:54 PM

Thank you!

This was helpful and I immediatally saw it is the white font color that messed me up.

I'll keep trying to tweek Windows to see if there is any way to change highlighted text as far as the font goes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Do you use Windows? Calibre takes the highlight color from the Windows accent color; you'll need to change that. Settings (Windows settings, not calibre settings) -> Personalization -> Colors -> Choose your accent color.

11-23-2023, 05:53 PM	#1
drypen Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: Kindle	Can I change highlight or font color for a book in the library? I don't see well so the white font with a light blue background is invisible to me. I don't really do the dark option well either. I am old (a great-grandmother actually) and usually I can figure stuff out on my own so this is frustrating. Making the font bold helps a bit but I would prefer to either make the highlight color darker or make the font black if possible. EDIT: Cirtel's answer helped to narrow this down the most. It's not the highlighter color it's the white font. I changed the highlight color to a dark grey and was able to see the text clearly. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by drypen; 11-24-2023 at 02:01 PM.

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11-23-2023, 06:18 PM	#2
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,713 Karma: 226728044 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	Do you use Windows? Calibre takes the highlight color from the Windows accent color; you'll need to change that. Settings (Windows settings, not calibre settings) -> Personalization -> Colors -> Choose your accent color.

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