Changing the colour of \textbullet in LaTeX Beamer

Question

I don\'t want to use Beamer\'s standard blue colour theme. I want to use beaver, which is deep reds. Everything looks nice, except that if I use itemize

Answer 1

In the current (early 2012) version of beamer, you want to use:

\setbeamercolor*{item}{fg=red}

instead.

Answer 2

... what is the brute force way to change the bullet points red? ...

This works for me:

\setbeamercolor{itemize item}{fg=red} % all frames will have red bullets

\begin{frame}

  \begin{itemize}
    \item First item.
    \item Second item.
    \item Third item.
    \item Fourth item.
  \end{itemize}

\end{frame}