The following is a list of all valid keys for the UIManager.getDefaults() object. I'm not sure which of these is the key you need, but you may take a look at the call ColorUIResource cuir = UIManager.getDefaults().get("activeCaption"); ...which seems to return a ColorUIResource which, functionally, is just a Color object. 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