Is it possible to change the color of the tmux status bar in command mode or "highlight" mode?

[hq6]

Issue description

When I type Prefix-: inside tmux to start typing a command, tmux changes the color of the status bar to dark yellow.
A similar effect happens if I push Prefix-, to change the name of a window.

While fine on a normal monitor, I've recently started using an E-Ink monitor, and the highlight color makes the status bar completely unreadable when I'm trying to type into it.

Is it possible to control the color that the status bar changes into?

I've searched through the manual as well as the web, and haven't found a way to configure this setting.

I'm currently looking through the source but I have not found yet found where the color is emitted.
If the answer is that there is a no configuration for this, a pointer to the source line that sets this color would be greatly appreciated, so I can rebuild tmux with this highlight color changed.

Required information

Please provide the following information:

• Tmux version: I have tested this behavior tmux next-3.5 as well as tmux 3.0a.
• Platform (uname -sp): Linux x86_64
• $TERM inside and outside of tmux (echo $TERM): Outside tmux is xterm-256color. Inside tmux is screen.
• Logs from tmux (tmux kill-server; tmux -vv new). Attached.
  tmux-out-291328.log
  tmux-server-291328.log
  tmux-client-291326.log

[nicm]

message-style

[hq6]

Thanks, that fixed it!
It might be worth updating the man page to mention that this is also the "highlight" style or the style used when typing a command.

[hq6]

Closing this since the question has been addressed.

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