Changing the overall 'Appearance' colour

SystemPreferences->Appearance:Appearance provides a hard-coded choice only between two none-too-pretty colours labelled 'Blue' and 'Graphite'. (In contrast to 'Highlight Color' directly underneath it, whose pop-up offers many choices plus a customizable colour!)
Granted, if colour-customization were made available in 'Appearance', a user could foolishly choose a colour that may conflict with other elements of the GUI; for example, black would obscure the (name of) the action on the default button of any panel. But that would be a user error (and perhaps the way to balance it would be to allow further customization: a choice of colour for GUI text) which the user could quickly rectify; such an option would not be a design flaw.
So much for the digression: the question is: is it possible to change the 'Appearance' colour with a 'defaults write' in Terminal or by any other workaround, and if so, how?

Unless you are really expert at Terminal commands, try a third party system enhancer. You can Google for an appropriate one for you.

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