# \[Bug?\] 8.1.14 Not respecting Client Background Color in Designer **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** vision, ignition81\ **Created:** [February 2, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-8-1-14-not-respecting-client-background-color-in-designer/55667 "2022-02-02T16:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Matthew.gaitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@Matthew.gaitan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matthew.gaitan)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-8-1-14-not-respecting-client-background-color-in-designer/55667/1 "2022-02-02T16:36:45Z")
On previous versions of Ignition, the background color when editing a Vision window reflected the `Client Background Color` property within `Project Properties > Client > User Interface`. It doesn’t seem like that’s the case anymore. 7.9 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/b/2/b2b193ea7dba35d2daa93d3cb5c1b8fa4a050b63.png) 8.1.14 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/f/3f4fa965438f1e49a2386325e1402d52ae2a6e0a.png) Is there any way to change this? Sucks not having any contrast between the window you’re working on and the background. Edit: Looks like this was working on 8.1.7, but stopped working on 8.1.9+. Looking at the release notes, there were a lot of updates included in 8.1.9 relating to `Visualization - Swing` including an update to the Look-And-Feel ☹ ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-8-1-14-not-respecting-client-background-color-in-designer/55667/2 "2022-02-02T17:34:15Z")
That’s not what my window vs background looks like… I bet we’re holding on to something in the window from the upgrade. If you make a brand new window, it still looks like that? This is mine, for comparison: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/7/3765996bb244f61c8c80ccf2bf480094732f3cc3.png) During the change to the LaF, a decision was made to standardize the ‘empty workspace background color’ and _not_ use the Vision related BG color, though I could see how that’s not ideal. ---
**Author:** ![Matthew.gaitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@Matthew.gaitan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matthew.gaitan)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-8-1-14-not-respecting-client-background-color-in-designer/55667/3 "2022-02-02T17:41:11Z")
Hey Paul, that’s what my default looks like as well ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/c/4cb0c8b357af632454b72d5fdd46e4c44cf55706.png) I was referring to the ‘empty workspace background color’ we have over 1000 windows using the color of the window background in the original image (218, 218, 218), which is _far_ too similar to the ‘empty workspace background color’ (216,216,216). I’m assuming that there’s no way to change it without you guys adding an option in? ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-8-1-14-not-respecting-client-background-color-in-designer/55667/4 "2022-02-02T17:51:40Z")
It doesn’t look like it, no. I looked around to see if there might be a way to hack it in and didn’t have any ready success. ---
**Author:** ![Matthew.gaitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@Matthew.gaitan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matthew.gaitan)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-8-1-14-not-respecting-client-background-color-in-designer/55667/5 "2022-02-02T18:24:43Z")
Well that’s a bummer! D: I know you guys made this change on purpose, but could this still be considered a regression? I don’t know what all goes into supporting this in your LaF, but I imagine this affects anyone who uses a similar window color to the new default ‘empty workspace background color’ ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-8-1-14-not-respecting-client-background-color-in-designer/55667/6 "2022-02-11T23:34:37Z")
I don’t quite want to say no… but I also don’t want to say yes, either. I’ll check in and see if there’s anything we can do. ---
**Author:** ![Matthew.gaitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@Matthew.gaitan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matthew.gaitan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-8-1-14-not-respecting-client-background-color-in-designer/55667/7 "2022-02-14T23:58:09Z")
Awesome! Thank you for your help. 😃