kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>Frank C. Weiler <fcweiler@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>> I have gone through the documentaiton several times, and am not able
>> to locate WHERE the site wide default color scheme and default fonts
>> are established for any user.
> 
> You could also use strace (or trace or truss or ktrace, depending on
> OS) on an invocation of Emacs.  Look for stat or open calls on files
> named Emacs (with capital E).

...in the lib/X11/app-defaults directory.  On my site, it would be
  /local/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs
which could contain lines like
  *foreground: blue

-- 
Hallvard