You can also use the highlight style tag in your <B> codes:
<B style="background-color: lime; color: fuchsia; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Very Ugly Colors</b>
Very Ugly Colors
Now let's get even fancier: using CSS you can put a background image behind text:
<font style="background-image:url('wood022.jpg'); color: #000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16pt;"> Text with a<BR> parquet background </font>Text with a