Hi, You know the price you have to pay: wikifying .. \setuplayout [header=0cm, topspace=1.625cm, footer=0cm, width=fit, height=fit] \startMPinclusions numeric MyTitlePageDone[] ; \stopMPinclusions \startuseMPgraphic{background:normal} StartPage ; fill (topboundary Page --cycle) enlarged(0,5mm) shifted (0,-5mm) withcolor \MPcolor{color:background:\namedstructureuservariable{chapter}{mycolor}} ; StopPage ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay [background:normal] [\useMPgraphic{background:normal}] \startuseMPgraphic{background:title} if unknown MyTitlePageDone.\namedstructureuservariable{chapter}{mycolor} : StartPage ; fill ((topboundary Page --cycle) enlarged(0,5mm)) shifted (0,-20mm) withcolor \MPcolor{color:title:\namedstructureuservariable{chapter}{mycolor}} ; StopPage ; MyTitlePageDone.\namedstructureuservariable{chapter}{mycolor} := 1 ; fi ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay [background:title] [\useMPgraphic{background:title}] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background={background:normal,background:title}] % could be drawn in one go \definecolor [color:title:one] [r=0.86,g=0.88,b=0.76] \definecolor [color:background:one] [.9(color:title:one)] \definecolor [color:title:two] [g=0.86,r=0.88,b=0.76] \definecolor [color:background:two] [.9(color:title:two)] \starttext \startchapter[title=One][mycolor=one] \input tufte \page \input knuth \stopchapter \startchapter[title=Two][mycolor=two] \input tufte \page \input knuth \stopchapter \stoptext Of course more solutions are possible. Btw, watch the topboundary trickery and the fractional color. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------