The default accent color is not used on macOS

[mekentosj]

We have nothing against blue, but rather have a preference for Agenda orange

Joking aside, the rationale and a way to switch to blue is given here:

Changing colours

You’re absolutely right that you could consider this a hack, however we prefer the default color of the app to be orange not blue, that’s a design choice. Just like Apple choose blue as the default color for selection on macOS. 99 out of 100 people stick with blue because it’s the default not because they particularly prefer blue over any of the other choices, which is why we use our “default” color if you have the system set to the default highlight color. Unfortunately this comes at the cost o…

Changing colours

Here are the instructions if you prefer a blue accent color over the default orange: Quit Agenda Open the app Terminal, which is in /Applications/Utilities Copy this into Terminal, and press return defaults write ~/Library/Containers/com.momenta.agenda.macos/Data/Library/Preferences/com.momenta.agenda.macos useSystemBlueAccent -bool YES Run Agenda again and see if it indeed has the blue accent color (requires version 5) For completeness, to restore Agenda to use the default orange again yo…