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[MMR]

I was wondering if would be possible to implement some kind of "auto-colour" font. Something like the AGS fonts.
You have a white font, and you choose the color of that font by scripting.

e.g: actor.SetFont("fonts\arialb.font", blue);

or:  actor.SetFont("fonts\arialb.font", 0, 0, 255);

[Mnemonic]

Well, everything's possible. But it believe it's fairly easy to re-color the font in some graphics editor, plus it allows you to use some other effects, such as gradients etc.

[McCoy]

Well yes, but I think it's a little nuisance to do that when you want to have different font colors for every speaking character on the same scene (most useful for letting the user know who's talking when your game doesn't have voices ), so you'll have to do like 5 versions of every font you're planning to use for talking (well, yes, it's usually just one kind of font...).  And it will be not only useful for that, but for special effects and all that (you know I like graphic tricks... sometimes just because of the very meant of them [art because of art? mhh... I think that's too much in this case ]). And I don't think gradients will be very common on very used fonts like talking fonts. Anyway something like the alpha color of a sprite will do nicely I think...  

[MMR]

yep, that's what i expect to be implemented

[odnorf]

Count one more vote for this please. I would have used that feature in Dreams if it was possible (although at the current state I am using only 2 different colored fonts)