# Appearance

Set how see-through the pill is and what colour it goes while Blabb is listening.

Two settings, both about the pill that sits on screen while Blabb is running.

| Control | Range | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Floating window visibility** | 10–100%, in 5% steps | 100% |
| **Listening indicator color** | Default / Windows accent / Custom | Default |
| **Custom listening color** | A colour picker, shown only when Custom is chosen | — |

## Floating window visibility

How solid the pill looks. It starts fully opaque at 100%; at 10% it is barely there.

The reason to drop it is simple: the pill is always on screen, and sooner or later it comes to rest
over something you need to read. At 50% you can read straight through it and still see it well
enough to know Blabb is listening. Below about 20% you will lose track of it entirely, which is
fine if you know your shortcut and never look.

You can also drag the pill somewhere less annoying — it stays where you drop it. Try that before
turning it invisible.

## Listening indicator color

The colour the indicator goes while Blabb is listening. Three choices:

- **Default** — Blabb's own colour.
- **Windows accent** — follows the accent colour you set in Windows, so it matches everything else
  on your desktop and changes when you change that.
- **Custom** — reveals a colour picker and uses whatever you choose.

Pick something you will notice against the window you dictate into most. If you have taken the
opacity down, a stronger colour buys back some of the visibility you gave up.

## See also

- [A tour of Settings](/docs/configuration/settings-tour/)
- [The pill](/docs/get-started/the-pill/)