Thank you so much! This information seems to be difficult to find in the Manual, and is made a bit more complicated to use by the fact that the color used for selection in Blender varies quite a bit (unlike in most other tools). For the vertex/edge/face mode button, light gray indicates unselected and dark gray indicates selected. For the 3d edit mode scene, various colors indicate active, unselected, or selected vertexes, edges, and faces, depending on the setting of the vertex/edge/face mode button! The User Preferences > Themes > 3D View menu appears to offer ways to make the active and selection colors consistent, but the labels for each option are inconsistent and difficult to understand.
I would like to see cgcookie or another tutorial site offer a video tutorial showing the easiest way to make all selecting in Blender use the same unique color for selection.
