On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 09:50 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> you forgot to include the minimal example

\definecolor[colour_page][r=0,g=0,b=0]
\definecolor[colour_text][r=0.754,g=0.516,b=0.324]
\definecolor[colour_footnote_background][colour_page]
\definecolor[colour_footnote_text][colour_text]

\setupfootnotes
    [
     color=colour_footnote_text,
     backgroundcolor=colour_footnote_background
    ]

\starttext
This is some text with a footnote on the end.\footnote{And here is the
footnote.}

\stoptext

It seems to ignore the colour of the footnote's text and just sets it as
black. I also can't figure out how to set the colour of the footnote
number.

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