MacOS – How to Change Hyperlink Color in macOS Notes

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The hyperlinks in Notes on macOS are essentially yellow on white, as shown in the screenshot below.

Default Hyperlink Color in macOS Notes

I would like to change the color to any darker color to improve the contrast, but how? I have tried to highlight hyperlinks to change their color, but the color remains the same even after selecting a color for them.

Best Answer

Not sure when this started, but I found something relevant to this question just today. I really hated the color of the links in Notes, too, and had come across this question months ago and wanted to return to add my discovery:

Link color is mostly connected to highlight Accent color in Sys Prefs. I'm running 10.14.6 and using Dark Mode. I recently changed my highlight color from grey to orange (the orange looks good against the slate color of dark mode). I just happened to open a note containing a long list of links. It took a second to realize, "I can read these links!" Then, "I can read these links because they're orange!" I tried changing the highlight color to blue and the links turned yellow (against Dark Mode that now works) not blue. So mode also plays a part in determining link color in Notes.

EDIT: The change in Accent color changes the link color. Changing the Accent color might also change the Highlight color but they don't necessarily have to be the same.

System Preferences > General > Accent Color

Hope that helps someone.

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