@Yoinx I really like you trying to help me out, because if there is a way to avoid using my snippet I will do it. Unfortunately, I can\'t get it right the way you say. Can I ask you to perform a test, without my snippet having loaded? 1: Make a new colorscheme, change \"normal text\" to white and \"background\" to black. 2: Enter a channel with your normal nick and again with a clone. 3: Type in the window of your clone control-k 1 test ( []1test ) and look in your other window what you can read: nothing I guess unless you drag your mousepointer over the textline. 4: Now try to make it readable as you told me, with right-clicking the color index, while keeping the black background. So far as I can see, if you change the appearance of black, ALL black colored items will change, including the background and the text remains unreadable...... at least in my mIRC.