In the Options dialog, navigate to Editing > Editor Settings > JSP Editor > 
Fonts & Colors. There are a number of problems with this dialog from the 
perspective of ease-of-use. These problems apply equally to other editor 
color configs.

* The syntax items are in no particular order (not 
sorted by name or grouped logically).
* The default color for most items 
is not a named color so when the user wants to change it, they are forced to 
open a new dialog as opposed to be seeing a dropdown list of standard AWT 
colors (which most default colors belong to even though they're set as 
RGB).
* Even though there are logical groupings of syntax elements, 
these are not used to make setting colors easier. For example, comments; 
the JSP color list contains 6 kinds of comments (JSP, XML, SGML, HTML, Java 
line, Java block). There should be a comments group where I can set a 
default for all of these (and then if I desire, I can make one specific item 
an exception). Similar logic applies to literals, tags, attributes, 
etc.

Color setting is probably one of the first things a new user does 
and it is one of the most cumbersome dialogs in NB (which is showing marked 
improvement from version to version). NB should show ease-of-use here so as 
not to potentially lose a new user.