Date: Sat, 29 Sep 90 10:12 EDT From: pan@Athena.Pangaro.Dialnet.Symbolics.Com (Paul Pangaro) It seems like a simple request: I want to output lines of text in different colors, depending on their importance to the user: red for critical, yellow for important, etc. Did you try the :color option to graphics:draw-string ? I haven't tried it myself, but it seems like the obvious approach.