
To change the color of the icons in DVT, navigate to **Window > Preferences** and open the **DVT > Icons** preference page.

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To change one or more icons select them in the tree and choose a filter from the drop-down list.

Once you are comfortable with the colors you chose, click **Ok** and you will be prompted for a **restart** to apply the changes.

There are six **predefined color filters**: Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta. These filters change the predominant color of the selected icons into one of the six colors previously mentioned.

You can also create your own filters, by clicking the **Edit...** button. You will be prompted with a dialog that allows you to **Add**, **Remove**, or **Duplicate** custom filters.

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To edit a filter, select it in left hand list, then modify the **Hue**, **Saturation**, or **Brightness** parameters in the right hand menu. These parameters will be applied only on the primary colors that are selected above.

The **Overlap** parameter indicates the hue interval size that will be modified.

For example, choosing to modify the red color with an **Overlap** of 180, will modify all the colors, since the hue interval is (-180, 180) degrees. An **Overlap** of 30 will only modify the colors in the (-30, 30) degrees hue interval around red.


