Yea, that would have been my guess as well. But after changing every item in that file, I have drawn the conclusion, it is not there. When I changed the typography.css file at the top level, then I was able to change the font color. I don't like that solution, but it was the only place that made a difference.

/* GENERIC STYLES
-------------------------------------------- */

.typography * {
font-family: Verdana, Lucida, Arial, sans-serif;
color:#CCC;
}

I tried all of the lower hx and had no affect in that file as well as messages.css. Otherwise it is working great.

When creating a new message, instead of program pulling from the name field, how do you pull from the Nickname field, can this be done in the messagemember.php file using:

$fields->push(new TextField('Nickname')); in the updateCMSFields function?