[Jon8RFC]

If you know the hex color code you want to use, you can do what I do.

1) on your buddylist at the very top, click on My AIM>save buddylist...
2) when the window pops up, uncheck all of the boxes except the "text composition and viewing settings" and save to desktop.
3) right-click on the file you saved and click on "open with..." and select notepad.

It will look like this

Config {
 version 1 
}
User {
 screenName Jon8RFC 
}
IM {
 font {
  windowColor #ffffff 
  textColor #000000 
  size 12 
  face "Times New Roman" 
  style 0 
  zoom 100 
 }
}

4) change the textColor #000000 to the hex color code of your choice. I changed mine to look like this:

Config {
 version 1 
}
User {
 screenName Jon8RFC 
}
IM {
 font {
  windowColor #ffffff 
  textColor #dc143c 
  size 12 
  face "Times New Roman" 
  style 0 
  zoom 100 
 }
}

5) save the file and close notepad.
6) again, click on my aim>load buddylist... and select the .blt file to load. BAM, you're finished!


You can do the same for the windowcolor, which is the window color/text background color.

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials...le.php/3478961
http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials...le.php/3479001

You can just google for [color=red]hex color codes[/url] and find tons of sites with color codes. The first link above has a pretty solid chart for common colors, but they're beyond the colors you can select within AIM.

If you'd like to enable the custom coloring option in AIM, you can run this program while you have AIM running:
http://www.fx-soft.com/downloads/colors.exe

^That's a handy program, but it isn't as precise as I want, because I like easy-to-choose colors from a site such as htmlgoodies.com