Hi, textcolor does not work any longer with MPinstance. Consider the following example from the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/defineMPinstance \defineMPinstance [important] [metafun] % needs to be inherited from the global metafun instance [textcolor=red] \defineMPinstance [veryimportant] [important] [textstyle=bold] \starttext % normal black text \startMPcode draw textext("some text") ; \stopMPcode % red text \startMPcode{important} draw textext("some text") ; \stopMPcode % red bold text \startMPcode{veryimportant} draw textext("some text") ; \stopMPcode % a graphic that uses a custom instance % This does not work with the current stable version \startuseMPgraphic{veryimportant::mygraphic} draw textext("some text") ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{veryimportant::mygraphic} \stoptext Thanks, Aditya