# Browser look preferences

These settings control the appearance of Opera's user interface, including buttons, fonts and colors.

## Button Set

If you want to change button set in Opera:

1. Download a button set from the Net, for example from The MyOpera Community
2. Unzip the button set into the Buttons directory in your Opera directory
3. Click in Preferences, browse to your button directory, select the file with the ini extension (usually "buttons.ini"), then click
4. Click

If you want to create your own button set:

1. Study the default button set in Opera
2. Create a similar collection of files, only with your graphics instead
3. Put your graphics files in a new directory in your Buttons directory
4. In Preferences, tell Opera to use your button set, like described above.

You are warmly welcome to contribute button sets to The MyOpera Community, where everyone can look at and use your button set.

You can choose if you want to show a border around buttons, and if you want buttons in color or in shades of gray.

## Skin images

The foreground image skins Opera's buttons and toolbars, while the background image skins Opera's workspace (the area behind all your Opera windows).

There are two ways to set skin images:

1. Choose an image on your computer with the buttons in Preferences
2. Right-click on images in Web pages, and select the Use image as menu item

## Fonts

By default, Opera uses standard fonts set by the operating system. If you disable the system defaults, you can choose your own fonts for Opera's user interface.

Normal text | This font affects text in the user interface
Active text | This font affects currently available user interface actions
Inactive text | This font affects currently unavailable user interface actions
Hotlist text | This font affects text in the hotlist

Copyright © 1995 - 2002 Opera Software ASA. All rights reserved.