| Appearance | Background | Foreground | Font |
| 3D Objects | same shade
lighter shade
darker shade
| buttontext | - |
| Active Title Bar | activecaption | captiontext | caption |
| Active Window Border | activeborder | - | - |
| Application Background | appworkspace | - | - |
| Caption Buttons | - | - | - |
| Desktop | background | - | - |
| Icon | - | - | icon |
| Icon Spacing (Horizontal) | - | - | - |
| Icon Spacing (Vertical) | - | - | - |
| Inactive Title Bar | inactivecaption | inactivecaptiontext | caption |
| Inactive Window Border | inactiveborder | - | - |
| Menu | menu | menutext | menu |
| Message Box | - | windowtext | message-box |
| Palette Title | - | - | small-caption |
| Scrollbar | - | - | - |
| Selected Items | highlight | highlighttext | menu |
| ToolTip | infobackground | infotext | status-bar |
| Window | window | windowtext | - |
Color 2, used to generate the gradient titlebar in Windows 2000, is not available via CSS.