The following registry keys are to change the color of Fonts/Seperator Lines/Today Items etc.
*please contribute as to your experience with the following hacks - and if you discover any new values!

Following hacks are located in:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Color



Today Font Color

Add this line: Binary Value of "39" = 00 00 00 00

This changes the font color to black.

FF FF FF FF is white. It goes on and on. Experiment with whatever color you'd like.

Contributed by Oat
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Perimeter Color
go to BASE HUE

value data = put any number here. m9ne is set at 10 which is dark grey. found out 10000 is bright blue

then just save and watch the color change

Contributed by Sandman
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Title Bar & Soft Key Menu
BaseHue (DWord) - I'm not sure what method MS uses, but 1-100 appears to be shades of gray.....very large numbers like 34583 appear to be random colors.

Today Screen Line Seperators
6 (Binary) - I found that CD CD CD 00 (i think it's RGB + Alpha) is a darker gray.

even and odd lines
16 & 37 (Binary) - This is the color that controls even and odd lines of the right color of the screens that have a gradient in the background....like in ActiveSync and Pics and Video.

even and odd lines
15 & 36 (Binary) - This is the color that controls even and odd lines of the left color of the screens that have a gradient background. (Combine this with 16 & 37 and you can do pretty cool effects)

Notification
13 & 14 (Binary) - This controls the gradient that appears on the notification dialogs (e.g. volume, email notifications, etc). 13 is the left color, 14 is the right color.

Balloon Notifications Font
27 - The color of the font that appears on the balloon notifications.


Tap & Hold Dots
40 (Binary) - The color of the tap & hold dots (aka the circle of dots when you hold down on the stylus.

Title Bar Font
9 (Binary) - Color of the title bar font.

Today Item Font
4 - Today item font color.

BaseHue value are 0-255 for grayscale, 256-495 for a colors from a hue scale (e.g. red to yellow to green, etc)

Contributed by rrife
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so who can figure out how to change font color on phone app?

On the stock phone app?

Done here.

here's the list of the ones i've been able to find at xda-developers.com:

5 Task Bar color left
8 Task Bar color right
9 Vertical start bar and Application Title/Clock text
4 Today Screen text
6 Today Screen horizontal bars
7 System tray background
10 Notification multi-icon highlight (when tapped to show Notification Tray)
11 Notification Tray background
12 Notification icon highlight (when icon is tapped on Notification Tray)
13 Normal Notification title color left
14 Normal Notification title color right
15 Notes/Tasks/etc List background color left 2 (only PPC2003)
16 Notes/Tasks/etc List background color right 2 (only PPC2003)
25 Critical Notification title color left
26 Critical Notification title color right
27 Normal Notification title text (works in 2002 and 2003)
28 Critical Notification title text (works in 2002 and 2003)
36 Notes/Tasks/etc List background color left 1 (only PPC2003)
37 Notes/Tasks/etc List background color right 1 (only PPC2003)
39 Start Menu text
40 Tap-and-hold dots

...and here are a couple of websites to help with color so you don't have to guess:

http://www.vijay555.com/vj/Releases/VJBaseHue/Colors/colors.html

http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/

The phone application colors are controlled by a handful of gif images located in the /Windows folder. They're locked for editing so you'll have to make them writeable using a 3rd party tool before you can overwrite them.

haven't had time to try it yet but does this work on non-stock as well?
(ie the e-ten version)

Yes the stock phone app has all its images in the windows directory. The text (numbers/letters) are all superimposed on top of those images by the phone app, just like with the "easy phone skin hack." Changing the registry will change the color of those numbers.

The ETEN M600 skin is different. All the images are in the windows directory also, but the entire thing is made up of the images. For example: PcvDialerBkP.bmp is the dialpad in portait. All the nuimbers and letters are on that image. Changing the numbers on that image will change the numbers on the phone app. This works to our advantage because now we can dow thatever we want with those letters and numbers. PcvDialerBkP_Inv.bmp is that same image but with all the buttons pressed. Instead of swapping the entire image, it only draws the approipriate section of PcvDialerBkP_Inv.bmp on top of PcvDialerBkP.bmp to make it look like one button was pressed. So if you want to change the colors of the letters and numbers on the eten skin change the files that start with Pcv*.bmp.

To change the color of the numbers and letters on the stock phone app and the zombiephone "easy phone skin hack" you gotta change the registry.

I don't mean those numbers I meant the numbers that are "dialed", ABOVE the phone pad

maybe its worth a shot. ill try it tonight at work and post here, unless you get to it first.

It's incorrect that that it's "00 00 00 00" Four unique sections for the binary colors, there are only 3 sections. "00 00 00" would be black and "ff ff ff" would be white.

Jay

Okay, does anyone elses' colors revert back to whichever theme you have selected, every time you soft reset? I can not get my colors to stick, nor can I get any image to stay put after any reset. I'm sure it's the themes fault, but is there a way to not select a theme?

if not maybe there could be a way to have the colors changed at start up after a reset...though i don't know what the loading order would be like (if the selected theme would load in the beginning or at the end)

<- just looking for an easy reg change for a black background (maybe combined with a black image if need be)

The following are colors I found by playing a few min ago. I only tried these in the Base Hue

100 - Grey
300 - Gold
400 - Blue
500 - Purple
600 - Turquois
700 - Darker Purple
1000 - Dark Pink
5000 - Darker Turqouis
8000- Shrek Green
10000 - Orange/Red
40000 - Green
50000 - Darker Green
70000 - Blue/Green
80000 - Light Blue
100000 - Dark Blue
110000 - Dark Purple
160000 - Redish color
170000 - Univ of Tennesse Orange


Ill play more later but thats what I have so far.

EDIT: In addition: when you change the colors in the base hue it changes the seperator line, dots, upper and lower bars on the today screen

Just tested this two ways. one having a "aftermarket" theme selected, changed the color and soft reset, and the color I changed it too stayed.

Tried by selecting a "stock" theme and my color I changed it too stayed as well.