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On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Michael Slass wrote:

> M-x customize-face RET font-lock-string-face RET

And "M-x list-faces-display RET" will show all the faces known to Emacs 
as of the time you invoke that command.  You can then customize each face 
by clicking on it.

> Anticipating your next question --- M-x list-colors-display will show
> you the names of all the colors emacs can display written in that color.

Actually, this is not true.  Emacs typically supports a much larger set 
of colors, it just shows some subset of it (the only exception being a 
character-mode terminal, where it shows the exact full set of colors it 
supports).  You can have more colors by using the X "#RGB" or similar 
notation.

To see where do the colors shown by list-colors-display come from, look 
into term/x-win.el (or term/w32-win.el for Windows).