File View Comparison Colors

Tools > Options > File Views > Compare Colors

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These options allow you to customize the colors used to highlight differences in the various types of file views.

Set Important differences and Unimportant differences to your preference for those concepts.  The font colors and background colors will be derived from these basic colors.  By default, the basic color is used for the text color on differences, and a pale version of the color is used for the entire line's background color.

Click the Bold button to use a bold font style for differences.

Adjust the Background Contrast slider to make the background colors lighter or darker overall.

The Difference Enhancer slider controls foreground/background contrast for individual differences.

Mark the Use merge colors for compares checkbox to color one-sided lines as left or right additions (blue and purple) rather than differences (red).

Pick a basic color for indicating Left changes, Conflicts and Right changes.  These colors will be used for icons and the thumbnail summary.  Derived colors will be used for the background color on appropriate lines.  For each of these colors there is a Shift Unimportant Color slider that modifies the hue used for unimportant differences.  There is also an Additional Contrast slider that further lightens the unimportant color.