Color 'reversal' of desktop (and everything else)

While doing some data entry work, a binder fell on the left side of my keyboard and the desktop (incl menu bar, dock, everything!) suddenly changed color. The colors seem 'reversed' - blue is sort of green/brown, black type now is white, etc. The desktop wallpaper is affected the same way, too.
I tried to find a way to undo this but have been unsuccessful. If I do a 'Get Info' on the desktop, the little color chooser for Labels shows 'reversed' colors. The first box, which reads 'Red' is sort of turquoise. On the 'Appearance' System Preferences panel, the Appearance and Highlight Color settings are still at 'Blue' but the boxes show a sort of brownish color, not blue.
This only affects one account (thank heavens!) but it is pretty ugly and I want to get rid of it. Maybe if I dropped the binder randomly on the keyboard a million times, I could reverse this but I was hoping for a quicker method.
Thanks for your help.
David

Wooo hooo! That's it!
The 'problem' must have been the binder pressing the 3 keys (control, option, command - all in a row on the bottom left of the keyboard) while the number '8' was being entered into the Excel spreadsheet! A weird and unlikely to be repeated 'accident'.
Colours back to normal. Many thanks.
David

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