# Change element colors **URL:** \ **Category:** Scrivener\ **Tags:** support, scriptwriting\ **Created:** [October 14, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/change-element-colors/136766 "2023-10-14T19:06:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tjayende](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/tjayende/32/28309_2.png) [@tjayende](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/tjayende)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/change-element-colors/136766/1 "2023-10-14T19:06:39Z")
give elements unique colors ---
**Author:** ![Vincent\_Vincent](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/vincent_vincent/32/19680_2.png) [@Vincent\_Vincent](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Vincent_Vincent)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/change-element-colors/136766/2 "2023-10-14T19:38:31Z")
Hi. If you mean files and folders in the binder : > [@Setting up labels for color coding binder documents](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/setting-up-labels-for-color-coding-binder-documents/132269): > > [image] [image] Double click the color dot: [image] [image] Pick your color. Ok, Ok → Exit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [image] [image] . . . . . . . . . . . . Multiple binder selection: [image] Right-click: [image] Document(s) selected: [image] Document(s) not selected: [image] . . . . . . . . . . . . → Once designed, a set of labels can be saved as part of a project template, as well as be dragged from one project’s settings’ label tab to another. wink . .… ---
**Author:** ![tjayende](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/tjayende/32/28309_2.png) [@tjayende](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/tjayende)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/change-element-colors/136766/3 "2023-10-14T19:59:51Z")
THX Vincent. I meant the actual element. Different color for character/dialogue/scene action. etc. ---
**Author:** ![MimeticMouton](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/mimeticmouton/32/34_2.png) [@MimeticMouton](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/MimeticMouton)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/change-element-colors/136766/4 "2023-10-14T20:04:37Z")
You can set the font colour for an element in `Format ▸ Scriptwriting ▸ Script Settings...` under the Font tab. It’s just below the list of style formatting. Click on the square chip to choose a colour. ---
**Author:** ![tjayende](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/tjayende/32/28309_2.png) [@tjayende](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/tjayende)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/change-element-colors/136766/5 "2023-10-26T20:18:08Z")
thank you. I’m still investing that. I’m spoiled by FD, where it was so easy to color code characters. ---
**Author:** ![MimeticMouton](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/mimeticmouton/32/34_2.png) [@MimeticMouton](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/MimeticMouton)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/change-element-colors/136766/6 "2023-10-27T04:49:37Z")
Maybe I misunderstood the request—are you trying to assign different font colours to different character names? That isn’t doable in Scrivener’s script settings. What it does allow is colour-coding the different elements (Action is orange and Scene Heading is green and so on): ![ColouredElements](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/uploads/default/original/3X/e/a/ea56e046238d8f1f04bcac9b1f5b320be9a4aa31.png) ---
**Author:** ![Vincent\_Vincent](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/vincent_vincent/32/19680_2.png) [@Vincent\_Vincent](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Vincent_Vincent)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 4:59am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/change-element-colors/136766/7 "2023-10-27T04:59:02Z")
…And if what you want is for the background to be colored, then you could by working your document(s) in standard text mode, using styles (which may have a background color or highlight – highlight if you want it to compile/print) that you’d design so, and to which you’d set the next style so that to reproduce as best as you can your usual script sequence of elements. The downside, though : less control at compile. (Because you’d then have styles all over.) …And also styles don’t have alternative what-afters, unlike script elements. . . . . . . . . . This said, if what you want is to color characters, as in people (Mike in blue, Tom in green, for e,g.), that could easily be done afterwards, using `Edit / Find / Find...` in a Scrivening, where starting at the top of your first document you’d search for “Mike”, color or highlight in blue, “next” on the find dialog, color, next, color, next, color […] all the way to the end of the draft. Then start over, on to the next character. ---
**Author:** ![tjayende](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/tjayende/32/28309_2.png) [@tjayende](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/tjayende)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/change-element-colors/136766/9 "2023-12-07T21:41:48Z")
And that is greaat (game changer info) thanks