White Text Nested in Generic Annotation Family is Still Black Text

If you nest white text into a Generic Annotation family, it will still be black text in the project.

The trick is to change one of the RGB numbers to something else like 254.

But seriously, why would you need this?

Let’s say you have a black background (for whatever reason, indulge me for a moment), and you needed white text on top of it. Then the only way you could print was to set the print setting to “color”.

Which means, if you had any colors in the rest of your view, you need to force all the colors to be black in your view templates just so you could print this text in white over a black background. Does this make sense to you?