I am toying around with colors. The one thing I believe is not there are the outlining of schematic sheets. They are too dark red for what I want.
I have looked in the color list like 5 times now. But I can’t find it?
Kind regards, 
Bas
I just looked, I changed lots of things that had a similar colour, none made any difference to the sheet outline colour. 
A solution there would be too easy 
The Devs. want to keep us on our toes?
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Thnx, seem to work. I can also fill the inside
Now imma gonna delete me this blue, it’s hidious
Kind regards 
Bas
That’s why I don’t even start twiddling with such settings, but just leave them at their defaults. (But I do confess I have set the background of plots in the simulator to white).
Sometimes you have to live life on the edge . . . 
be safe out there.
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I do darkmode exlusively. I am still waiting on the day that KiCad’s UI gains darkmode as well (or is it already?) I ofcourse also run on low brightness and apply night filters.
I also think it is fun to do colors Nice colors make me happy.
Sometimes like now I just experiment a little bit. I also used to this in code editors.
Bas
Me too. But I do it by using a light color theme in my whole OS, and then turning back the brightness of the monitor to 10%. If I turn up the brightness of the monitor, then it’s so mind boggingly blinding I would need sun glasses. This does loose color fidelity, but I have a pretty good monitor (AORUS FV43 something something) and when I first bought it I fiddled a bit with color and gamma settings and I got used to any left over imperfections this introduced.
I use W10 and W11. I once read that windows didn’t support some feature, which KiCad would need for a dark mode
I did put my OS on darkmode… ofcourse 
Actually maybe we should not lose this. Is there a case for putting it in ‘Preferences’? It’s where I would look.
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I too am in favor for having these settings here. I think it is the logical thing to do. Should I do a feature request?
I don’t need the abiltity to give every sheet a unique color. Not really.
Bas 
I have a suspicion that the Sheet border and background fill colors have been forgotten rather than deliberately omitted from colors in Preferences > Editors > Colors.
I have just been exploring and noticed that other items in the Color List, that have their own Properties window, allow color changing in both the Properties and Color Preferences.
Maybe the Dev/s. incorporating the Sheet Properties into Kicad that evening didn’t quite get the correct amount of beer and pizza to complete the job?
No. I like the method of being able to set defaults in the theme / color preferences, but having the ability to override some of the colors. For most projects it may not make much sense to have different colors for hierarchical sheet boundaries, but in some projects may be useful.
My post was in reference to the ability to change colors in both the Colors and Properties, NOT the Global/Local difference between Colors and Properties changes.
Please read my comment above more carefully.
Re v7 (and, probably works in v8, too)
Kicad has Color Themes for each of Kicad’s Editors (except for the 3D-Viewer) that can be set in the Pref’s panel.
And, there is a Kicad Default theme.
The Schematic (Eeschema) has a Python panel where you can run Python code and, you can also use any Text-Editor to change the Themes.
I’ve made several GUI/App’s for this kind of stuff and below Video shows switching from myBLACK schematic theme to Kicad Default (and, back)… Naturally, if desired, could create an App with Check-Boxes/Radio-Btns for quick Theme switching…
Note: Video show Must Exit Kicad then re-start it to take affect…