Indigo's look is yours to change: the color of the whole interface, the picture on each face of the cube, how much it moves, and whether it plays music. Everything here is in Settings, and Discard & Exit undoes it.
Menu Color
Settings › Setup › Console › Menu Color recolors the cube, its light and the stage behind it, the panels, the highlight and the text. There are eight: Indigo (the default), Azure, Emerald, Gold, Spice, Crimson, Rose and Jet Black. Indigo, Spice and Jet Black are GameCube colors.
Right steps round the colors one at a time. A lists all eight, and the whole screen takes each color as you move through the list, so you see it before you choose. B keeps the color you had; A chooses the one you're on.
Every color keeps Indigo's brightness, so text stays as easy to read. Cover art, disc banners, the controller buttons in the hints, warnings and cheats that are on keep their own colors.
Backdrop and Wave Color
Under Menu Color, Backdrop Color colors the dark backdrop behind the cube and its faint rings, and Wave Color the waves that drift in front of it. Each is Menu Color by default, following Menu Color as it always has, or one of the same eight colors to keep whatever Menu Color is. So the cube, the backdrop and the waves can each have a color of their own: a Gold cube over Azure waves on a Jet Black backdrop, say.
They work like Menu Color: Right steps round the choices, and A lists them with the screen showing each one as you move through the list. The backdrop keeps its darkness in every color, so the cube and the text stand out as before, and Jet Black draws it nearly black.
Wave Speed, below them, sets how fast the waves drift: Slow is half as fast, Normal as they always have, and Fast three times as fast. A new speed picks up from where the waves are, so they never jump. Waves, above Wave Color, takes them away when it's off, leaving the backdrop and its rings.
Cube icons
Each face of the Home cube shows a picture, and you can pick it: Settings › Setup › Console has Library Icon, Source Icon, Settings Icon and System Icon. Each face has four icons of its own, so no two faces can show the same one, and A lists them. Home shows your choice as soon as you leave Settings.
| Face | Its icons (it starts with the first) |
|---|---|
| Library | Controller, Books, Covers, Play |
| Source | Hub, Disc, SD Card, Folder |
| Settings | Sliders, Gear, Toggles, Dial |
| System | Clock, Info, Power, Chip |
A face keeps its name and what A does there. The Controller follows your controller, and the Clock tells the time.
Motion
Settings › Quick › UI Motion:
- Full: calm movement and ambient detail. The cube flies in when Indigo starts, it sways, the backdrop drifts, and the Library face's controller plays by itself when you leave it alone.
- Reduced: quicker transitions without the decorative movement. The cube fades in when Indigo starts instead of flying in.
- Off: everything moves instantly.
Motion never delays your input: Indigo acts on a press at once, even in the middle of an animation.
Settings › Setup › Console › Idle Animation chooses how the cube moves while Home rests, with UI Motion on Full: Calm, the slight drift it has always had, turned a little to the right, or Sway, which turns it slowly left and right, so the faces beside the one in front peek round its edges and their icons show. After a turn the sway starts again from where the cube rests. Over Change Source's devices the cube holds still.
Two more in Settings › Setup › Library: Animated Backdrop keeps the backdrop still when it's off, and Panel Transparency makes the panels solid instead of letting the backdrop show through.
Just the cube
Settings › Setup › Console › Face Labels and On-screen Controls take the face's name and the button hints from under the cube, for a Home with nothing but the cube. Other screens, the Library and the File Browser among them, keep their hints, and so does Restart's question. With the hints off, Y on Home still opens Settings.
Music and sounds
Settings › Quick has Menu Music and Menu Sounds, the soft sounds as you move and choose. The music is "Up in the Sky" by Memoraphile (CC0): a quiet intro, then a section that loops. It starts or stops the moment you switch it, and starts again from the intro.
From docs/guide/personalize.md in Indigo v2.8.0, rendered for the web. Spotted a mistake? Suggest an edit.