Change text colour of desktop icons on Windows 10

Question

As the title says, is there any way to change the colour of text for the icons on your desktop in Windows 10?

I have a lot of nature backgrounds so white tends to blend in. I have made them bold but that isn't really enough.

Solution

Is there any way to change the desktop icon text colour in Windows 10?

I struggled with this for some time but I found a way:

• If you have the background set to picture, set it to Solid color.

• Chances are it's black by default.

• This is forcing a white font color regardless what you select for a picture.

• Change it to say orange, which will make the font color black.

• Now change the background back to picture, and you should have a black icon font color.

Source Desktop Icon Color Change - Accessibility Option

Comments

[Andy]

Thank you for your answer! I have come across this solution but none of the solid colours available in Windows 10 seem to make the font colour black! I haven't even got white as a solid background colour to select?

[Andy]

Sorry! Orange does make the text black - I'm not sure how I missed that. To be honest it hasn't made the icons anymore readable, but hopefully this question will still be of some help to other users.

[Oliver Heggelbacher]

Same here. Doesn't work with Orange. Using Windows 10 x64. This frustrated Win10 user reports the same: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start/…

[Lonzak]

This is not working anymore and there seems to be no other solution :-(

[David C.]

Seems to work for me. Make sure you pick a light background. None of the ones Microsoft provides seem to be light enough, but you can click the "+" button to use a custom color. I set mine to a light blue (#77aaff) which produces black text for me.