Changing iMessage background colour on mac

You can't specify the different contacts, but I think you can replace the linen texture with something else if you wanted. I haven't tried this myself, so it may not work as intended.

• Find Messages application in Finder
• Right Click, and select "Show Package Contents"
• Open "Resources" folder
• replace "linen.tiff" file with you own texture that's also called "linen.tiff" (be sure to back up the original file).

Hi,

In Messages > Preferences > Messages pane you can change the Font, it's colour, the "Ballon" colour of out going Messages.

The Balloons Style is set in the View Menu > Messages and can be "Boxes" or "Compact".

You have to elect to change the Colour of the background to the text (not the whole window) to be then able to chose a new Font or colour the Font as well.

(broadly speaking aim for Dark Text on a Light background or Light text on a Dark background).

The Incoming Messages will have their Own colours when sent from Mac Buddies (those using AIM or Jabber).

Group chats tend to be somewhat random looking but most people seem to chose different colours.

You can override these Fonts and Colours if you want something that you can read.

iMessages are less likely to show any colours (will show as white) when sent from an iOS device that is not strickly sending in coloured bubbles. (they show on the iPhone as Blue or Green for the iMessages or SMS sending but they don't actually contain the balloon colour info to go to the other end)

It used to be that you caould drag a Pic over an open Chat wiindow (or the Messages Pane in Preferences) and change the background to the whole chat that way.

That has not been done since about iChat 4.

It would tile some smaller pics and not fully display others.

Current dragging a pic over the chat automatically adds it to the Text Field to be sent when it is released.

8:44 PM Friday; June 21, 2013

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Hi,

You are posting in a Thread that is in Mountain Lion (3 version of the OS and Messages earlier than Yosemite).

It used to be in this Menu

At the time I Screen Grabbed this menu a Buddy List was the front window. (So items referring to the main Messages/Chat window are greyed out)

There used to be a Format Menu between Video and the Window one where you could change the Font and text colour for part or the whole messages you were about to send.

This went along with the Messages pane in the Preferences which disappeared in the Mavericks version where you could change the Font and the colour of the background of the Balloons or other Messages style that you used to be able to use.

In Yosemite's version of Messages (which is still called version 8 like the Mavericks one despite the significant changes) you can only change the size of the text.

7:52 pm Saturday; December 20, 2014

I am using Yosemite. I do not see a "Viewing" Menu. Have a way for me to do it? Thank you.