Hex Workshop provides the user with preferences to customize the appearance of their hex editing environment. These options can be changed by selecting Preferences from the Options menu and then selecting the Display tab. The list of options are enumerated below:

Sample

The sample is designed to give users a picture of how their layout and display modifications will changing Hex Workshop rendering of a document view without forcing users to apply changes.

Colors

Users can customize look of the Hex Workshop display by modifying many of the foreground and background colors. A list of foreground and background colors follow.

Offset Foreground	The foreground text color used to display address/offset information. The foreground color is used for both the vertical offset column and the horizontal offset header.
Offset Carat Highlight	The foreground text color used in both the virtual offset column and horizontal offset header depicting where the caret (horizontal/vertical bar) is located.
Offset Cursor Highlight	The foreground text color used in both the virtual offset column and horizontal offset header depicting where the mouse pointer is located.
Offset Background	Background color for the address/offset vertical offset column and the horizontal offset header.
Odd Hex Column Foreground	Foreground color for odd hex columns.
Even Hex Column Foreground	Foreground color for even hex columns.
Odd Hex Area Background	Background color for odd hex columns.
Even Hex Area Background	Background color for even hex columns.
Text Area Foreground	Foreground color for text area.
Text Area Foreground	Background color for text area.
Modified Bytes	Foreground color for data modified within the editor, but not yet saved.
Separator Lines	Color of lines separating the offset, hex, and text areas. The separator color is also used as the background color for highlighting the current caret position in the vertical offset column and horizontal offset header.
Find All Foreground	Foreground color of "found" text. See Find for more information.
Find All Hex Background	Background hex color of "found" text. See Find for more information.
Find All Text Background	Background text color of "found" text. See Find for more information.
Structure Foreground	Foreground color of data selected within the structure viewer.
Structure Background	Background color of data selected within the structure viewer.
Bookmark Foreground	Foreground color of data selected within the bookmark display window.
Bookmark Background	Background color of data selected within the bookmark display window.

Highlight Modified Bytes

If this is checked Hex Workshop will display modified bytes in the specified color selected (see Colors, above). The default is on (checked).

Font

The font which is used to display all data in the main editing window. This can be changed to any monospace (fixed width) font on the your system. The default is Courier 12 point.

Character Filter

On the right side of the main editing window is the character equivalent of the hexadecimal data. The characters are displayed using the chosen character set. The user can choose between ASCII (0x20-0x7F), DOS, EBCDIC, Macintosh, Windows ANSI (no filtering), Unicode, or a custom character filter. The default is ASCII.

The "View" button will display a read-only character filter. Here you can view the mapping from byte to display character.
The "Edit" button launches the character filter editor to modify an existing character filter.
The "New" button launches the character filter editor to create a new character filter.