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title: "Colors and Fonts"
slug: "colors-and-fonts"
updated: 2024-01-31T14:35:00Z
published: 2024-01-31T14:35:00Z
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# Colors and Fonts

The Colors and Fonts tab is used to change how the cells and text are displayed. Clicking on one of the ![](https://cdn.document360.io/59db2ca4-e512-446a-a143-a7c626447812/Images/Documentation/image059_001.png) buttons opens a Font window. Clicking on a color setting opens a color picker.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/59db2ca4-e512-446a-a143-a7c626447812/Images/Documentation/image061.jpg)

### Fonts

![](https://cdn.document360.io/59db2ca4-e512-446a-a143-a7c626447812/Images/Documentation/image062.png)

**Caption:** The font of the captions in the header of each column.

**Cell:** The font of each cell in the MDE.

### Font Colors

![](https://cdn.document360.io/59db2ca4-e512-446a-a143-a7c626447812/Images/Documentation/image063_001.png)

**Caption:** The color of the captions in the header of each column.

**Cell:** The color of each cell in the MDE.

**Selected Row:** The color of the text in each cell of a selected row.

### Cells

![](https://cdn.document360.io/59db2ca4-e512-446a-a143-a7c626447812/Images/Documentation/image064.png)

**Manual Entry:** The background color of every cell that is not otherwise specified.

**Selected Row:** The background color of a selected row.

**Script:** The background color of cells for a scripted tag.

**Overridden Script:** The background color of cells for a scripted tag that have been manually overridden.

**Tag value (read-only):** The background color of read-only tag cells.

**Overridden Seed:** The color of seed cells that have been manually overridden.

**Bad Quality:** Background color of cells marked as bad quality.

**Alarm Event Indicator:** Color of indicator when the tag has an alarm during the record.

**Alarm Event Full Background:** Color the background instead of using an indicator for alarms.

**Audit Indicator:** The color of the Audit Indicator that appears over cells that have been changed.

**Comment Indicator:** The color of the Comment Indicator that appears over cells that have comments.

**Required Entry:** The color of the border around a cell that is missing a required entry.

**Recommended Entry:** The color of the border around a cell that is missing a recommended entry.

### MDE Info Label

The MDE Info Label text, font, and color can be configured.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/59db2ca4-e512-446a-a143-a7c626447812/Images/Documentation/image065_002.png)

**Horizontal Text Alignment:** The horizontal alignment of the text in the label.

**Vertical Text Alignment:** The vertical alignment of the text in the label.

**Background:** The color of the background of the label.

**Foreground:** The color of the text of the label.

**Text Font:** The font of the text of the label.

**Textbox:** A preview of the label. The text in the box can be changed.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/59db2ca4-e512-446a-a143-a7c626447812/Images/Documentation/image067_002.jpg)