Blender set your own 3D view background color

Ever wondered how can you set your view background in Blender? Somehow  I prefer brighter background so I always change it. It’s personal I guess.

Well there’s easy to do that. Even in 3 places, wherever you prefer.

You can set view background by accessing view options in top right of blender interface:

There’s three different ways to set background color: theme, world or viewport.

Theme viewport color

This variant is good if you always want the same viewport color for every file you open in Blender, so it’s persistent. However you need to set this color in Blender’s preferences theme settings here:

choose “3DViewport” and scroll down for “Theme space”, click on it:

look for “Gradient colors”, and click on “Gradient High/Off” and set the color you prefer.

World color

There’s also options to set view color per “World”. However this color is set in “World” tab here:

look for “Viewport display”, I guess this option is per blender file so you can have different settings.

Viewport color

There’s also third quick option to set view color straight there in Blender’s view options:

just select color in color box under “Viewport”.