>>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 :)
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>FWIW, I like it (but I like red ;-)).
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>Anyway, here is the WinAPI calls to get the Active Titlebar colors.

>#define COLOR_ACTIVECAPTION  2
>#define COLOR_CAPTIONTEXT    9
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>declare integer GetSysColor in user32 integer
>lnbackcolor = GetSysColor(COLOR_ACTIVECAPTION)
>lnforecolor = GetSysColor(COLOR_CAPTIONTEXT)

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>You could perform this in the label's Init and set the colors accordingly.

Thanks :)

GetSysColor definitely makes for cleaner code, but I'll sacrifice clean code for colors that show at design time any day ;)