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Welcome to the Decker community, Specterette!

Exploring dead online forums is a fun idea. Gray Lo-Fi's Old Web Cobwebs might be a useful source of inspiration!

Text in Field widgets is generally either black-on-white (default) or white-on-black (If the widget has been set to "Show Inverted"); at present you can't simply change the color of some text, but depending on your needs there are several options that might do what you want:

If you set a field widget to "Show Transparent", you can draw in color underneath it, but the "foreground" text will be black.

If a field doesn't need to be interactive and you just want visible text, you can select a widget containing text, choose "Edit -> Copy Image" from the menu and obtain a "screenshot" of the widget which you can paste elsewhere and then manipulate with normal drawing tools. (This works for any widget!)

It is possible to customize Decker's 16-color palette and remap black/white to some other color. Harlequin Diver's Fear and Loneliness in Latona's Void  is a good example of how this aesthetic turns out. Scripts can modify Decker's palette on the fly, so it's also possible to give each card a distinct palette with some extra work.

Rich-text fields can contain inline images, which can use any colors, but this feature isn't generally ideal for text input.

It's also possible to draw text- or anything else- in color on a Canvas widget with scripts. In principle it would be possible to build a Contraption offering a more colorful text widget depending on what exactly you needed to do.

Does any of that help?

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That helps immensely!! I was only looking to change from black to white but I'm having ideas of other ways I could style text using the examples you provided. Thank you so much for going into detail, it's much appreciated :)