OK i figured out what is happening :)
Pegasus has generated this "brown" colour uniquely for me on screen, to try to make a contrast with my chosen window background colour of #9AA7BA (that's the pale blue colour, which I have set in Windows 10, because I hate seeing a screenful of pure white, hurts my eyes).
In hex, #9AA7BA + #655845 = #FFFFFF.
It's not really creating styled messages with a brown colour, the message text is still seen by the recipient in the default black colour. The brown is only on my own screen.
It's an interesting programming choice by David Harris, which I've not seen other applications use.
I'm not sure I agree with it. Foreground Colour = #FFFFFF - Background Colour is not necessarily the highest contrast choice. Imagine if the background colour is #808080, that would produce a foreground colour of #7F7F7F which would be visually indistinguishable. There must be better algorithms for automatically picking a high-contrast text colour - for a start, black text usually looks good on any bright background, and white text looks good on any dark background.
I'll take this up in the suggestions area.
<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">OK i figured out what is happening :)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Pegasus has generated this "brown" colour uniquely for me on screen, to try to make a contrast with my chosen window background colour of #9AA7BA (that's the pale blue colour, which I have set in Windows 10, because I hate seeing a screenful of pure white, hurts my eyes).</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">In hex, #9AA7BA + #655845 = #FFFFFF.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">It's not really creating styled messages with a brown colour, the message text is still seen by the recipient in the default black colour.&nbsp; The brown is only on my own screen.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">It's an interesting programming choice by David Harris, which I've not seen other applications use.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I'm not sure I agree with it.&nbsp; [b]Foreground Colour = #FFFFFF - Background Colour[/b] is not necessarily the highest contrast choice.&nbsp; Imagine if the background colour is #808080, that would produce a foreground colour of #7F7F7F which would be visually indistinguishable.&nbsp; &nbsp;There must be better algorithms for automatically picking a high-contrast text colour - for a start, black text usually looks good on any bright background, and white text looks good on any dark background.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I'll take this up in the suggestions area.&nbsp;</span></div>