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This should be an easy question to answer.

I'm color blind - so slight differences in color mean nothing to me. How can I change the color of the 'found' text when I do a search in textpad?

The current highlighted text isn't contrasting enough for me to see. Thank You!

You can change the colour as follows:

1. Click Configure > Preferences.
2. Click the plus sign next to Document Classes.
3. Click the plus sign next to Default.
4. Click Colors.
5. In Item, click Selected text.
6. Select Foreground and Background as desired. These colours are used when the document window has focus (e.g. when using Search > Find Next to find the next result).
7. In Item, click Selected text (no focus).
8. Select Foreground and Background as desired. These colours are used when the Find dialog has focus.
9. Click Default.
10. Select Apply these settings to all document classes.
11. Click OK.

This worked perfectly. Thank you very much.

Many thanks from me also

I am going mad trying to change the selected text highlight and text colour as per the instructions. My problem is that when I go to configure - preferences - document classes - default THERE IS NO COLORS OPTION.

I can right click on an open document and set these options but they apply only to the open document while it remains open. Load it again and any other document and the settings are gone.

I am colour blind and find the current settings inadequate. The selected line is practically impossible to distinguish and I continually select extra spaces or miss initial characters when selecting.

OK - I missed the down arrow (I suppose this used to be the plus sign mentioned) under Default, which course brings up a list of options and that's where the COLOUR option lives.

My bad...

the down arrow (I suppose this used to be the plus sign mentioned)

This is subject to how your operating system renders a tree control - as per version and theme a "plus" can become a triangle. But that also means you never met pluses outside of TextPad, too.

Sometimes a screenshot helps more: