# Appearance with colors

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/appearance-with-colors/448>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [February 1, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/appearance-with-colors/448 "2017-02-01T07:49:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![arnyeinstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@arnyeinstein](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/arnyeinstein)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/appearance-with-colors/448/1 "2017-02-01T07:49:01Z")

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Hi  
I just updated to 3.8.2. Before (3.8.1), I probably changed something in the settings and had colored icons in the menu (I believe they were partly green/red). I tried to change the appearance but they didn’t reappear.  
Am I dreaming, or was this really available in the previous version?

Renger

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**Author:** ![mlep](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/mlep/32/387_2.png) [@mlep](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/mlep)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 8:19am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/appearance-with-colors/448/2 "2017-02-01T08:19:33Z")

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JabRef 3.8.1 was “Christmas edition”. This is why there was green and red icons.  
Since it is not Christmas time anymore, these colors have been removed from JabRef.

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**Author:** ![arnyeinstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@arnyeinstein](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/arnyeinstein)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/appearance-with-colors/448/3 "2017-02-01T11:42:38Z")

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It’s a pitty. Looked nice  
Renger

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**Author:** ![joerg.lenhard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/joerg.lenhard/32/9_2.png) [@joerg.lenhard](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/joerg.lenhard)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/appearance-with-colors/448/4 "2017-02-01T15:17:06Z")

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> It’s a pitty. Looked nice  
> Renger

I am really happy you liked it!

We are currently working on making the color of icons (and their size) configurable: [Make icon colors (and size?!) configurable by matthiasgeiger · Pull Request #2446 · JabRef/jabref · GitHub](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/2446) When this is integrated you can bring the christmas edition back for the whole year (or any other color scheme)!

Regards  
Jörg