Thanks. I would not have thought of that. In the reference manual headcolor occurs in 13.2 \setupdescriptions and in 13.5 \definelabel only. I did not connect that with footnotes. Is \setupnotation a special form of \setupdescriptions? By the way, is a separate call to \setupnote[footnote][textcolor=red] necessary to color the footnotemark in the running text? Or is there a key for it in \setupnotation[footnote] too? Hans van der Meer On 06 Sep 2015, at 18:25, Wolfgang Schuster > wrote: Meer, H. van der 6. September 2015 13:15 Indeed, this helped. Thanks. For the record: in order to keep the position of the number in the footnote high, one has to use: \def\redfootnotenumber#1{\color[red]{\high{#1}}} \setupnotation[footnote][numbercommand=\redfootnotenumber] You can use the headcolor key to change the color of the footnote number. \setupnotation[footnote][headcolor=red] Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________