File Colors

File | Settings | Appearance and Behavior | File Colors for Windows and Linux

IntelliJ IDEA | Preferences | Appearance and Behavior | File Colors for macOS Ctrl+Alt+S

Use this page to set different background colors for distinguishing between project files of specific scopes.

Item	Description
Enable file colors	Select this checkbox to enable the feature.
Use in editor tabs	Enable colors in editor tabs.
Use in project View	Enable colors in the Project tool window and in search results (for example, in the Find in Path dialog `Ctrl+Shift+F`).
Manage scopes	Click this button to define the required scopes.

Configure colors

Similarly to scopes, color associations can be local and shared.

Local colors are only visible to you and are not shared through VCS.
Shared colors are placed under version control so that people who work on a project can use the same color associations. They are stored in the project folder under .idea in the fileColors.xml file (for example: MyProject/.idea/fileColors.xml).

Item	Tooltip	Description
	Add	Click this button to open a list with the available scopes. Click next to the necessary scope in the list and select a color.
	Remove	Click this button to remove the selected color-scope association.
/	Up / Down	Use these buttons to sort the color-scope associations and change the order in which they are applied.
Shared		Select this checkbox to share the selected local scope through VCS.

After you apply the changes and close the dialog, you will see colors in the selected areas in the interface:

Last modified: 12 November 2020