Thanks John, I will try it out. Cheers, M --- On May 13, 2015, at 11:39 AM, John Kitchin > wrote: There is no built in way I know of. I have done this in org-ref though, and you can see how here: https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/org-ref.el#L311 John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Doyley, Marvin M. > wrote: Dear all, I would like to change the face (i.e., color and appearance) of a custom org link type and was wonder if there is a easy way to do this. Thanks M