I agree with that last part. While I use alot of HTML in my posts, I try to keep away from coloring anything. There are a number of ways to drive attention by with italics, bold or underline (although I always associate underlined text with links right off the bat).

I see no need for coloring text. Truth be told, the usage of coloring will only screw it up for fellow monks that are using dark themes and/or pagers. I think my sig is a perfectly good example of good font usage (although it used to be a bit too big, and I inserted a size="-1" after a while).

#!/home/bbq/bin/perl
# Trust no1!