# Change color on kibana dashboard
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-color-on-kibana-dashboard/69738
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [December 22, 2016, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-color-on-kibana-dashboard/69738 "2016-12-22T06:52:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@anonymous4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anonymous4)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-color-on-kibana-dashboard/69738/1 "2016-12-22T06:52:48Z")
Hi,
Could not find the option to change background color of kibana dashboard. There are only two options dark theme or white theme.
What if we want to any other color in background of dashboard.How to do that?
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### Author:  [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-color-on-kibana-dashboard/69738/2 "2016-12-22T16:21:25Z")
Those themes are currently the only way to change the background color without writing a custom plugin. Is there is reason your looking for a specific color?
If you would like to create a feature request, you can do so [here](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new).
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### Author:  [@Kikketer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kikketer)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-color-on-kibana-dashboard/69738/3 "2016-12-22T19:59:30Z")
I forked Kibana and messed with the `colors.less` file. It's probably a better idea to create a custom plugin and just override the variables. I haven't tried it yet.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-color-on-kibana-dashboard/69738/4 "2017-01-19T19:59:48Z")
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