Use this screen to define 16 custom colours, which are used for highlighting lines that match triggers, and for colouring "notes" from scripts, and when commands are echoed in the output window.

Each of the 16 colours can have a "foreground" (ie. Text) and "background" colour specified.

You can also give each colour a name - this shows up in the custom colour combo boxes in other configuration dialogs (eg. triggers) so you can remind yourself of what each colour is for. eg. you might have custom colour 1 as white on red and label it "enemies".

Colour swatches

Next to each colour button is a rectangular "swatch" which shows what the current setting for that colour is. By reviewing the swatches you can see your overall colour scheme. You can click on the colour swatches to open the colour picker.

Changing colours

To change a colour click on the colour swatch, and then choose another colour by using the colour picker. You can move the slider bars, choose from a list, or open the Windows colour picker.

Copying and pasting colours

You can right-mouse click on a colour swatch and select "copy", and then right-mouse click on another colour swatch and select "paste", to copy and paste colours from one swatch to another.

ANSI colours for this world

This shows the current ANSI colours you have set up, so you can compare the custom colours to them.

Invert

Click on this button to invert each colour (that is white becomes black, black becomes white and so on). Mathematically, each colour component is subtracted from 255 to give the new colour. eg. new_colour = 255 - old_colour

Lighter

Click on this button to lighten all of the colours.

Darker

Click on this button to darken all of the colours.

More colour

Click on this button to increases the colour saturation of all of the colours, thus making them look "brighter".

Less colour

Click on this button to decrease the colour saturation of all of the colours, thus making them look "greyer".

Defaults

Click on this to return all custom colours to the MUSHclient defaults.

Random

Click on this to make all colours be chosen at random. Hint - you can make individual colours random by clicking on them to open the colour picker, and then clicking on the "random" button in the colour picker.

Swap

Click on this to swap the foreground and background colour for each custom colour.

See Also ...

Command

Dialog

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