Eckhart Guthöhrlein writes: Hello Eckhart,

I know I have seen the answer to this (probably trivial) question, but I can't find it anymore:

How to set a global default color for all text in a document?

I don't know for dvi output (why is it always black?) but for pdf: \setupcolors[state=start,textcolor=red] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext