Font and Color Settings

Font and color settings are controlled by a number of Font Dialogs, which are accessed from the Fonts page of the Settings Dialog. Some of the Font Dialogs are accessible from an alternate location, as disclosed in the descriptions that follow.

Compose
This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes, and the text and panel colors to use for the main text area of the Compose window. (The quoted message window uses the Message font and color settings.)
Folder tree
This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes, and the text and panel colors to use for the Folder Tree.
Headings
This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes, used to highlight section headings in dialogs. Many of the settings panels (custom programs, fonts and colors, etc.) use this font setting.
Help
This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes, and the panel color (the text color is currently ignored) for the help pages.
Main
This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes, and the text and panel colors to use for the Main Window panels and controls. Unless otherwise mentioned, these font and color settings are also used for all other panels and controls.
Menu
This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes to use for all menus.
Message
This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes, and the text and panel colors to use for the text browser (the WebKit browsers ignore the color settings). Unless otherwise mentioned, these font and color settings are also used for all text input fields and text display areas (but not for text labels).
Message list
This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes, and the text and panel colors to use for the Message List.
Title
This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes, used to render the gradient title bar, usually seen at the top of a dialog. For example, all the settings panels make use of this gradient title bar. Since the gradient transitions from the foreground color to the background color, you should make your foreground color setting for this very dark and the background very light for the best effect. For Java 1.1.x users, the color value is ignored and the gradient.jpg grapic image is used to determine the color.
Change colors
This button displays the Select a Font dialog which modifies the current attribute values which are allowed to be changed. For example, only the font attributes can be changed on menus, not colors. However, most other settings allow both fonts and color attributes to be changed.
Consolidate colors
This Query Window allows you to change all of the color settings to match the color settings of the Main Font Dialog.
Consolidate fonts
This Query Window allows you to change all of the font settings to match the font settings of the Main Font Dialog.
Import
This button allows you to select a previously exported fonts and color settings file into the current account. When the file dialog appears, select the settings file and once you close the settings dialog, the new fonts and colors will take affect.

Polarbar comes with settings files that are pre-configured to support a dark mode effect. One of these files is specific to Windows (PBMDarkModeWindows.properties) and another is for Mac OS X (PBMDarkModeOSX.properties). The reason for differences has to do with the native rendering of buttons on each platform so these settings files take that into account. You can find these files within the installed directory structure if you used a package installer or directly in the base directory if you used the zip/gz download. Linux users can use one of these to start their own custom dark mode configuration.

Export
This button allows you to export the current fonts and color settings shown in settings dialog to a file. This settings file can then be imported into another account or even another installation of Polarbar Mailer. Click the button and a file save dialog will allow you to place the settings file in a location of your choosing and enter a name other than the default one if required.