3 New tracks in Ardour are assigned a random color from a pastel color
4 palette, so they should never end up being particularly bright or
7 <h2>Changing the color of specific tracks</h2>
9 Select the tracks whose color you wish to change. Context-click
10 on the track header of one of them. From the context menu, select
11 <kbd class="menu">Color</kbd> and pick a hue to your taste in the
12 color dialog. Every selected track will be
16 Note that if you are only changing one track, context-clicking on
17 that track's header will be enough to select it, saving the extra
21 <h2>Changing the color of all tracks in a group</h2>
23 Tracks that belong to a
24 <a href="/working-with-tracks/track-and-bus-groups/">track/bus group</a>
25 can share a common color by enabling the <kbd
26 class="option">Color</kbd> option for the group. With this enabled,
27 any color change will be propagated to all group members.
30 You can also explicitly change the group color by context-clicking
31 on the group tab in the Mixer, selecting <kbd class="menu">Edit
32 Group...</kbd> and then clicking on the Color selector in that dialog