How to change the default object material color?

I’m installing a fresh copy of my Win 7 and automatically deleting all the apps installed and when I’m installing Blender again it comes with the default and right now I forget about this (default object material color) setting.


I’m sure I’m done this before, I have been changing the default object material color to Purple by selecting that somewhere in Blender just like in ZBrush.

Okay, I found it.


  1. It’s under Shading option on Matcap.

You can also edit the colors of the OpenGL lights in the System tab of the User Preferences (File/User Preferences… menu):