>>>>Good point - I just wanted to get away from the old 192,192,192!
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>>>As Nigel said, it should be up to the user. I'm running Win2K with the standard colors and my forms are 212,208,200. If you leave the color settings at their defaults, the user's choices will be used.
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>>In addition to what Criag said, I'll occasionally match a label's colors to the titlebar. There's a few ways to get the titlebar colors, but this code shows the colors at design time:
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>>BackColor: =EVAL("RGB("+SUBSTR(RGBSCHEME(15,4),AT(",",RGBSCHEME(15,4),3)+1))
>>Forecolor: =EVAL(LEFT(RGBSCHEME(15,4),AT(",",RGBSCHEME(15,4),3)-1)+")")
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>Huh? Why would you do that?

Don't get me wrong... most of my labels are black text and transparent background. Here's a screenshot of a form with a few labels color matched to the titlebar. I think it looks pretty good :)