Setting Contact Sheet Colours

Colours can be set through configuration/overrides. There's a set of variables controlling colour, listed below. Background colours start with bg_ while font colours start with fg_

They accept both named colours or hex-code (HTML-style) colours.
To see a list of named colours, use:

$ convert -list color

The simplest way to set your preferred colours is to add them to a configuration file, e.g. ~/.vcs.conf.

bg_heading=Wheat4
bg_sign=Tomato3
bg_contact=WhiteSmoke
fg_heading=White

bg_heading=gray
bg_sign=silver
bg_contact=#cbe1d2
fg_heading=#fefefe

This would be the result with the default colours:

• You can also set colours from (a very long) command-line to change for a single file, e.g.:

    $ vcs -O bg_heading=gray -O bg_sign=silver -O 'bg_contact=#cbe1d2' -O 'fg_heading=#fefefe' [other options] file.avi

• Since vcs also reads any file named vcs.conf in the directory from where you call it, you can also set up different profiles by creating files named vcs.conf with your preferred colours and running vcs from the same directory,
  e.g. place the first example in dir1/vcs.conf and the second in dir2/vcs.conf:

      $ cd dir1
      $ vcs [options] file.avi    # The first example colours will be used
      $ cd ../dir2
      $ vcs [options] file.avi    # The second example colours will be used