Changing the colour of \textbullet in LaTeX Beamer

Question

I don't want to use Beamer's standard blue colour theme. I want to use beaver, which is deep reds. Everything looks nice, except that if I use itemize the bullet points are still blue. Is there a nice way to have the bullets vary with what colour theme I was using? (If I were to opt for a yellowish colour theme, I'd expect the bullets to go yellow too.)

If there isn't, what is the brute force way to change the bullet points red? Or at the very least, make them go back to black again.

Effendi

Answer 1

... what is the brute force way to change the bullet points red? ...

This works for me:

\setbeamercolor{itemize item}{fg=red} % all frames will have red bullets

\begin{frame}

  \begin{itemize}
    \item First item.
    \item Second item.
    \item Third item.
    \item Fourth item.
  \end{itemize}

\end{frame}

Kono

Awesome. That does work. Unless someone comes up with a neat variable way to do it, this'll be accepted tomorrow. – Effendi

@Seamus, putting \setbeamercolor... outside the frame causes all frames to have red bullets. See my edit. – Kono

I was asking to have the bullet colour change when I change theme. And I guess I can do that by adding your fix to the .sty. And adding a similar line to the yellow theme style file. – Effendi

That sounds like a probable solution (I've never tampered with .sty files myself though...). – Kono

beamer colour theme .sty files are literally just lists of \usebeamercolor commands... – Effendi

Thanks for a cool answer. Somehow I can't find a comprehensive list of everything the \setbeamercolor accepts to change. – Mew

How would I go about changing the color for enumerate items? \setbeamercolor{enumerate item}{fg=red} doesn't work. – Bulwark

@BruceConnor, I'm not into (La)TeX much these days. Consider posting your question on: tex.stackexchange.com – Kono

Answer 2

In the current (early 2012) version of beamer, you want to use:

\setbeamercolor*{item}{fg=red}

instead.

Friarbird

@cupakob for me this does not work for subitems either. I had to use: \setbeamercolor{itemize subitem}{fg=black} – Earthman