Any way to brighten the color of events in month view?

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Any way to brighten the color of events in month view?

Hello everyone,

I have searched all over and cannot find a solution.

When you click on an event in month view, highlight it in other words, the color brightens and becomes the color that you actually set that calendar for. For example, I have a color called "Fun", which is set to a bright red. When I create a calendar event and assign it to "Fun", and then click off of it, Apple, for some reason, decides that what I want to see if a subdued, dimmed red instead of the BRIGHT RED that I want to see. Is there any way to force Apple calendar on a mac (10.12, Sierra) to not subdue the colors? Or someway to reverse the order...have the colors in monthly view be subdued when clicking on the, and then be bright when not selected? I have seen some plist edit stuff for changing default sounds, so I was hoping someone had hacked around and figured a way to keep the calendar colors bright in monthly view.

I know that other calendars, like iCal, give you much more freedom with colors, but I have no desire in install iCal or google calendar or anything else all across my devices.

Any help appreciated...thanks!

marco

MacBook Air, macOS Sierra (10.12.5)

Posted on Jul 23, 2017 3:00 AM

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Answer 1

foqus555 Author

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Jul 23, 2017 3:33 AM in response to YakovM

Same thing in week view...all day items do not overlap.. For some other arbitrary nonsense reason, you can only view 5 "All day" items at a time in weekly view. Why can't I have 10 or 15 all day items visible?

For me, I use Calendar as a sort-of checklist or to do list as well. I set most every single item in my calendar to "all day" because I like the solid colors of the events as opposed to a colored dot and text.

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foqus555 Author

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Jul 23, 2017 10:29 PM in response to tygb

Thanks tygb, but you see those bright colors that you select? When you go to the monthly view, all of the colors are dimmed, subdued, transparent...whichever word you use to describe them, they are not "bright" until you click on (select, highlight) them (all of my calendar items are set to "all day" which gives you a colored rectangle in monthly view). I want them to be bright all the time. I was hoping there was some way to disable the dimming effect in monthly view. Also, in weekly view, I would like to be able to view more than 5 items at once. The bar that separates all day items from the timed items should be moveable.

thanks for the input...

marco

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tygb

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Jul 23, 2017 10:17 PM in response to foqus555

Open calendar application via spotlight , right click on home > and click on custom color , choose the desired colour from the next pop up window .

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foqus555 Author

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Jul 23, 2017 3:30 AM in response to YakovM

Hmmmm...but in Month view, they never overlap, so there is no reason for semi-transparency. I can't see the all the events if there are more than six...I just get a line added at the bottom of that day that says, "2 more...". So, them being transparent means nothing in monthly view.

I would rather give up the transparency in order to have bright colors.

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tygb

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Jul 24, 2017 12:04 AM in response to foqus555

Open system preferences > Accessibility > select Display > move the cursor of Display contrast from normal to the middle and see the effects in calendar .

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YakovM

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Jul 23, 2017 3:05 AM in response to foqus555

The events in week and month views aren’t pale—they’re semi-transparent, so that if there are two or more events are scheduled at the same time, you can see all of them. You can’t actually change that behavior in the default Calendar app.

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