How to Change the Color of Your Dock on OS X Yosemite (Mac)

Last Updated: June 27, 2017

If you're using OS X Yosemite, you can now set to dark mode on Menu Bar and Dock and increase/reduce transparency. Start with step 1 to change the color of your dock.

Steps

1
On Finder, go to the  icon on the upper left hand of the screen.
- Click on the icon and find "System Preferences" in that dropdown. (It is highlighted in blue.)
2
Click on "General" to continue.
- For some "Snow Leopard or Earlier Mac Fans", you might call this "Appearance" but they don't use that name anymore in OS X Yosemite. They call it General.
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3
Click on the check box saying "Use dark menu bar and Dock".
- For 10.10 beginners, you may notice that it is still transparent. But, the dock and menu bar are dark.
4
Hit "Show All" now.
- The Show All button in System Preferences in OS X Yosemite is similar to the top sites logo on Safari 5.1.
5
Click on Accessibility to continue.
- Again, Accessibility is the new name of "Universal Access".
6
Make sure you're in the Display window (the default tab). The fifth checkbox down is "Reduce/Increase Transparency". Check on it now.
7
Quit the settings menu with ⌘ Cmd+Q.
8
Awesome! This is what it should look like.

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