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title: "Colors Tab"
slug: "colors-tab"
updated: 2024-01-30T14:36:29Z
published: 2024-01-30T14:36:29Z
canonical: "kb.dataparc.com/colors-tab"
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# Colors Tab

The **Colors** tab of Trend Properties contains options for configuring the colors of the trend display into a custom theme or selecting preconfigured themes. The trend line, grid line, Tag Info Grid, Plot Area, and Time Bar colors can all be customized.

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**Theme:** Choose from a list of pre-configured themes to affect the overall color scheme of trend. Choose the Custom theme to edit the colors individually.

**Set to Theme:** Overwrite default or DB theme with custom theme.

**Create DB Theme From Current:** Save current settings to database as a theme.

**Edit DB Theme**: When a DB theme is selected, enable editing.

**Save Changes To DB Theme:** Saves changes to the custom DB theme.

**Refresh List:** Reload items in Theme drop-down menu.

**Grid:** These options control the colors on the plot area. Click the colored boxes to open the color editor.

**Back Color:** Background color of the plot area.

**Fore Color:** Color of X- and Y-axes, X-axis labels, [SmartMouse](/v1/docs/plot-area) and [Quick Statistics](/v1/docs/plot-area) font.

**Major Grid Lines:** Color of major grid lines.

**Minor Grid Lines:** Color of minor grid lines.

**Zoom Highlight:** Color of region selected by clicking and dragging.

**Run Divider:** When in run mode, color of run dividers.

**Limit Zones:** These options control defaults for the limit zone settings on the [Trend Config Tab](/v1/docs/trend-config-tab). Can be overridden by individual trends.

**Target Limit Zone (C):** Use color picker to set color of zone C.

**Middle Limit Zone (B):** Use color picker to set color of zone B.

**Boundary Limit Zone (A):** Use color picker to set color of zone A.

**Limit Zone Stroke:** Color of line between limit boundaries.

**Limit Zone Opacity:** Opacity of limit zone coloring.

**Stroke Thickness:** Thickness of line between limit boundaries.

**Time Bar:** Changes the **Dash Major, Dash Minor,** and **Date** colors of the Time Bar. The time setting colors are used to differentiate the units on the x-axis labels.

**Date:** The color of dates on the time bar in the M/D format.

**Hour Minutes:** The color of times in the HH:MM format.

**Seconds:** The color of time labels that are in increments of seconds.

**Milliseconds:** The color of time labels that are in increments of milliseconds.

**Tag Grid:** Changes the **Back** **Color** and **Fore Color** of the plot. The **Sync Colors with Tag Grid** option copies the **Back Color** and **Fore Color** from the Grid colors.

**Default Tag Colors:** These fields control the default color tags’ trend lines based on the order in which they are added to the Trend. Clicking a field opens the color selection window.

**Save to Disk:** Save a custom theme as a file.

**Load Theme from Disk:** Load a custom theme from a file.