Close and minimize buttons

Hello
I picked up my iMac on Saturday after years with a PC, I am still finding my way around everthing and it's not proving to be the big issue that I thought it could be, love the screen, love the keyboard, not sure about "Micky" though.
I have a question for an expert amongst you, when you have a window open, as in the one that I'm typing this into, there are 3 buttons on the top left of the window to close, minimize etc.
I found out today whilst browsing in a local shop that these should have colours attached to them,
as seen green red and I think amber, I have no colours on my buttons and I WANT THEM.
Pointers on how to get these glowing correctly would be appreciated. I cannot see settings for them so assume they have a default action on startup.
The answer is ????
Peter

Go to the System preferences > View > Appearance
Select "Blue" instead of "Graphite", now the windows have colored buttons.
Unfortunately with the Graphite appearance you don't get the colored buttons, I still don't know why Apple made that choice.

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