Nine Circles of Shell

Accent Colors on non-iMac Macs

Just posting this so I can remember how to do it for new Macs. This is a link to a blog post explaining how to change the accent color on MacOS to use the special accent colors only available to the nice colorful iMacs. So now you can use those on your drab, homely Mac Mini or whatever.

Instructions below if the link dies.

First, enable the hardware-based accent colours.

defaults write -g NSColorSimulateHardwareAccent -bool YES

Second, choose a color. Use integers 3-8 to specify color.

defaults write -g NSColorSimulatedHardwareEnclosureNumber -int 3

Finally, restart your computer.

Colors are as follows...

• 3 Yellow
• 4 Green
• 5 Blue
• 6 Pink
• 7 Purple
• 8 Orange