# Change color of vtkCubeAxesActor
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/change-color-of-vtkcubeaxesactor/10584
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 1, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/change-color-of-vtkcubeaxesactor/10584 "2023-02-01T17:28:38Z")
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### Author:  [@BlueKnight7](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/BlueKnight7)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/change-color-of-vtkcubeaxesactor/10584/1 "2023-02-01T17:28:38Z")
Referring to example:
[https://kitware.github.io/vtk-examples/site/Cxx/Utilities/DetermineActorType/](https://kitware.github.io/vtk-examples/site/Cxx/Utilities/DetermineActorType/)
Notice that with this example the axes and axes labels are in white.
After looking at the on-line documentation and the class header file, I can’t determine how to change the color of the axes and their tick marks. I can change the color of the labels. I can draw grid lines in any color I choose. But, so far have not found how to change the color of the axes and the tic marks. How can I do this?
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### Author:  [@rexthor](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/rexthor)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/change-color-of-vtkcubeaxesactor/10584/2 "2023-02-02T18:47:12Z")
I didn’t compile the example, but perhaps `vtkCubeAxesActor::GetXAxesLinesProperty` and `vtkCubeAxesActor::SetXAxesLinesProperty`? These work with `vtkProperty` …
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### Author:  [@BlueKnight7](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/BlueKnight7)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/change-color-of-vtkcubeaxesactor/10584/3 "2023-02-02T19:56:20Z")
Thanks. That worked.
I don’t know how I missed it, probably because there were so many functions listed on the webpage and I wasn’t sure what I was looking for.