# Could we have an option to change the background color of the UI? **URL:** \ **Category:** Photon UI\ **Created:** [January 8, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/could-we-have-an-option-to-change-the-background-color-of-the-ui/391016 "2023-01-08T14:26:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mak\_Egivand](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mak_egivand/32/345860_2.png) [@Mak\_Egivand](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mak_Egivand)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/could-we-have-an-option-to-change-the-background-color-of-the-ui/391016/1 "2023-01-08T14:26:21Z")
Or at least have some more options other than dark gray and slightly less dark gray? ---
**Author:** ![Ragnar\_Martell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ragnar_martell/32/349284_2.png) [@Ragnar\_Martell](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ragnar_Martell)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/could-we-have-an-option-to-change-the-background-color-of-the-ui/391016/2 "2023-01-08T21:10:50Z")
Maybe an off white option would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![Dyver\_Phycad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dyver_phycad/32/358575_2.png) [@Dyver\_Phycad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dyver_Phycad)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/could-we-have-an-option-to-change-the-background-color-of-the-ui/391016/3 "2023-01-09T06:22:58Z")
Or maybe just colors like the themes in the old UI, which made it easier to read the UI, differentiate it between characters and would make it much easier to see which window was active when combined with Photon’s window highlight feature (which is completely wasted on the current iteration of it). ---
**Author:** ![Katya\_Itzimaru](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/katya_itzimaru/32/512123_2.png) [@Katya\_Itzimaru](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Katya_Itzimaru)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/could-we-have-an-option-to-change-the-background-color-of-the-ui/391016/4 "2023-01-09T15:41:35Z")
Yeah, I used the colors to quickly differentiate between characters. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Calsari](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gordon_calsari/32/470286_2.png) [@Gordon\_Calsari](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gordon_Calsari)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/could-we-have-an-option-to-change-the-background-color-of-the-ui/391016/5 "2023-01-16T19:39:52Z")
Agree. I made a similar post asking for the same thing. The new “themes” barely affect the UI at all, whereas old UI (still using old until they drag me kicking and screaming into Photon), each theme wildly changes the colors of EVERYTHING, rather than just a few lines and highlights here and there. Plus, like Dyver said, Photon’s themes are not only less effective, but there are less _of_ them. There’s like 20 themes on the UI and only like, what, 8? on Photon… ---
**Author:** ![Fred\_Gluon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/fred_gluon/32/357092_2.png) [@Fred\_Gluon](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Fred_Gluon)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/could-we-have-an-option-to-change-the-background-color-of-the-ui/391016/6 "2023-03-04T18:30:54Z")
I’ve been requesting this for A LONG TIME as even before Photon it wasn’t all that good and CCP has done absolutely \*\*\*\* all. I’ve also discussed with a CSM, who expressed maximum disinterest (“works for him”), not that CCP pays a blind bit of notice to CSM suggestions anyway. This is the most annoying aspect of the UI imho, especially for people who use more than one client and like to use colour to identify which character they’re on _at a glance_. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/could-we-have-an-option-to-change-the-background-color-of-the-ui/391016/7 "2023-06-02T18:31:16Z")
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