Annotation dot question

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Is there a way to make a Annotation dot not be black in color? It is heavy in ink usage as well as god awful in looks . Maybe just a border around the text? Thank you, Mark

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grafik
grafik699Ă—369 2.8 KB

You mean like this? Change the “Display Color”

grafik
grafik837Ă—1644 52.6 KB

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Thank you

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image
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Thank you, I will see what that looks like .

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A wireframe or ghosted would be great. I do see that white solves it for the most.

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Hi @markintheozarks , you can change the transparency of the color.

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Minimum opacity is 1:

afbeelding
afbeelding591Ă—423 4.85 KB

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Thank you , that is even better

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Ha! Didn’t know that.

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this is weird behavior.

for LayerColor etc. i can set 0. if I set Display Color to 0, it goes to 64.

@dale

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System Info

Rhino 8 SR35 2026-9-8 (Rhino 8, 8.35.26251.13001, Git hash:master @ 3645d710f50175d8ebcf404aded5b042a481c23e)
License type: Educational, build 2026-09-08
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 11 (10.0.26200 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 128GB)
.NET 8.0.19

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (NVidia) Memory: 12GB, Driver date: 1-20-2026 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 591.86
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #0
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #1

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 1-20-2026
Driver Version: 32.0.15.9186
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 12 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Users\da\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\RhinoUserTextDatabase\1.1.46-beta\RhinoUserTextDatabase.rhp “RhinoUserTextDatabase” 1.1.46.0
C:\Users\da\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\byRhinoGadget\1.6.1\byRhinoGadget.rhp “byRhinoGadget” 1.6.1.0

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.35.26251.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.35.26251.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.35.26251.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.35.26251.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.35.26251.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.35.26251.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

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The Display Color picker in the Properties panel replaces an alpha of exactly 0 with 25% (64), so an object can’t end up completely invisible. Any value from 1 to 255 is kept as entered. Layer colors go through a different path that doesn’t apply that limit, which is why they accept 0. Honestly, Layer color should follow suit.

– Dale

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reasonable design choice